Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning, after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King, SCLC leaders held long discussions on whether they would go to Washington to build a movement of poor people, to win specific demands from Congress, or to do both...
Leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who are still in Washington with about three hundred campaigners (some in the D.C. jail), admitted last week that it is a good thing that the City is gone. The Rev. Andrew Young and the Rev. Hosea Williams of SCLC both said that the business was a mistake...
...first the idea was 'movement building.' The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy decided to keep his demands vague. He would bring his troops to Washington, camp out, moan, sing and wait. Resurrection City would be the core around which a political movement would then materialize...
...through the open door of the local Unitarian-Universalist Church armed with an arrest warrant. The man they wanted was Richard W. Scott, a 20-year-old soldier who had deserted his unit as a war resister, and they had come to the right place to find him. The Rev. Robert Gardiner, with the approval of his congregation, had just granted the youth the ancient right of church sanctuary. It was a symbolic gesture, of course, since neither Scott nor his protectors tried to stop the FBI from taking him away...
Churchmen do not pretend that there is. "We are not trying to protect these boys," says the Rev. Harold R. Fray Jr., a United Church of Christ pastor who heads Massachusetts' Committee of Religious Concern for Peace. "We are not harboring them against the law. What we are doing is setting up a platform where their ethical and moral convictions can be made public." Adds the Rev. A. Finley Schaef, a hip-talking Methodist pastor in Greenwich Village: "This is a conscience thing, and that is what the church is concerned about, the conscience...