Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coretta King, dressed in black in memory of her slain husband, sang Come by Here, My Lord, then launched into a 25-minute speech dwelling at length on the war in Viet Nam-"the most cruel and evil war in the history of mankind." The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who has bumbled in his efforts to lead the campaign begun by Mrs. King's husband, talked for 65 minutes. He did not much care, he cried, whether the Government renewed its permit for Resurrection City, the poor people's waterlogged campsite by the Lincoln Memorial. "I received my permit...
Aretha's father, the Rev. C. L. Franklin, was?and is?pastor of Detroit's 4,500-member New Bethel Baptist Church, where the preaching is so fiery that two white-uniformed nurses stand by to aid overwrought parishioners. Franklin commands up to $4,000 per appearance as a barnstorming evangelist, has recorded 70 steadily selling LPs of his sermons. He may not be a member of the Baptist Ministers Conference, but his Cadillac, diamond stickpins and $60 alligator shoes testify to an eminently successful pastorate. Just how successful is not altogether clear, although when he was convicted last year...
...Rev. Wilburn Camrock Campbell, D.H.L., Episcopal Bishop of W. Va. Should matters of the spirit ever require more temporal power, it is reassuring to know that your ecclesiastical authority may be supplemented by your experience as a welterweight boxing champion...
...Rev. Yasuzo Shimizu, D.D., president of Obirin* College, Tokyo...
...Rev. John E. Hines, D.D., presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...