Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best example of the unconventional approach in action is in Columbus, Ohio. A humane and intelligent Lutheran minister, Rev. Leopold Bernhard, helped set up a "Neighborhood Corporation" in Columbus's ghetto with the help of Washington writer Milton Kotler. The Corporation is, in fact, little more than a simple legal line drawn around a neighborhood of 8,000 people. (Any good lawyer can set one up in a few hours--if a community so wishes...
...performance exhibited the meticulous preparation that one expects from the Glee Club. Forbes is a conscientious conductor and he shapes dynamics, attack, and tone quality to create beautiful and exciting effects. In the motets by contemporary composer Rev. Russell Woolen which opened the program, Forbes drew out a line that repeatedly swelled and subsided. The effect reflects the performance practice of traditional Gregorian Chant and adds a physical dimension to the musical sensations...
...imitate the sobriety of their white counterparts are again beginning to emphasize zeal and fervor in both sermon and song. And Negro pastors-although still a voice of reason in the ghetto-are getting tougher. One of Detroit's most militant black power leaders now is the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., who calls his Central United Church of Christ "the shrine of the Black Madonna." Concurrently, Negro pastors in a number of white Protestant denominations are forming separate blocs of their own, demanding more say in church affairs and more forceful programs in behalf of Negroes...
...Negro not dependent on the white man for his pay-also became the natural community leader. This is still true of the South. The vast majority of Southern Negroes are enrolled members of churches, and the civil rights movement has been led in great measure by men with "the Rev." before their names...
...secular hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found themselves alienated from skeptical youth-and teen-age looters in the recent riots were clearly not guided by obedience to the Ten Commandments. "They don't hear you when you say, Thou shalt not kill,'" admits the Rev. Clyde Williams of Atlanta. "They say, 'We've tried love and that didn't get us anything...