Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eighteen of the poor were arrested for unlawful assembly on Capitol Hill. Two hundred young toughs, mostly from Chicago and Detroit, were bounced from the 15-acre tent city for drinking, stealing and, as the Rev. James Bevel put it, "beating on our white people." Organizational snafus forced the leaders to put off a big march scheduled for this week until June 19 (known as "Juneteenth Day" for the anniversary of the freeing of the slaves in Texas in 1865). They also sent out an emergency summons to Bayard Rustin to handle the march, which may prove to be their...
...shadow. Before King was slain, there was strong rivalry at the second-echelon level of the S.C.L.C. The shock of his death brought the new leaders together, but the organization may fall into disarray. There are no obvious, immediate challengers to Abernathy. S.C.L.C.'s executive vice president, the Rev. Andrew Young, is more nearly on King's intellectual level than is Abernathy, but he is light-skinned and strikes some Negroes as too remote. Another aide, the Rev. Bernard Lee, is so outspokenly hostile to whites that his accession might dry up S.C.L.C.'s funds...
...track of Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze," the line of young men one after another touched their draft cards to a flickering candle. After watching the cards blaze down to finger-burning remains, they dropped the charred stubs in a silver bowl and shook hands with the Rev. William Sloane Coffin. Shown in a darkened Boston federal courtroom last week, the TV newsreel was offered by a federal prosecutor as part of the evidence against Yale Chaplain Coffin, 43, Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, 65, and three codefendants, all charged with conspiracy...
...with it." In another draft-related case, a Baltimore district court last week sentenced two pacifists to six years in federal prison and a third to three years for pouring duck blood on draft-board records. One of those sentenced to a six-year stretch was the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan, 44, a Roman Catholic priest...
...delegates, who came from 117 of the 156 U.S. dioceses, claim that the federation will represent 37,000 of the nation's parish priests. Mostly moderate activists, they chose as president the Rev. Patrick O'Malley, 36, administrator of a ghetto-area parish in Chicago, who insists that the organization "is well within the spirit of Vatican II," meaning specifically the democratic sense of "collegiality" that has developed in the postconciliar church. "The bishop is no longer king," said O'Malley. "We don't have to ask permission to undertake our projects...