Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disapprovingly shared by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In a heavily documented 105-page report released last week, the commission accused the Administration of pulling back on school desegregation. The bipartisan body, established by Congress in 1957 and now chaired by University of Notre Dame President the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, charged the Administration with attempting to justify its recent actions with statistics that give "an overly optimistic, misleading and inaccurate picture of the scope of desegregation actually achieved." It described the Administration's actions as "a major retreat in the struggle to achieve meaningful school desegregation." Said...
...talking to all of you who smoke," thundered the Rev. Clayton Brooks, addressing the townsfolk of Eagle Rock, gathered on the courthouse lawn. "You have the opportunity to fail an Almighty call, and you also have the opportunity to fail your own person, your own life, your own body, your own family, your own self. I ask you once more, those of you who smoke, to get up here and sign that pledge to stop now!" Perspiring, Reverend Brooks stepped down from his green gazebo pulpit. Somebody held out a lighted cigarette; he accepted it gratefully and took a long...
Wearing a yellow and green dashiki, the Rev. Junius Carter, rector of Pittsburgh's Holy Cross Church, trembled with emotion as he looked out from the speaker's lectern at the delegates assembled in Notre Dame University's domed athletic center. "Too long, bishops, you have sat on the sidelines and have not acted as our pastors!" he shouted. "I urge you to intervene at this convention and exercise the authority that has been given you by our Lord...
...Forman's Black Economic Development Conference. The Episcopal Church thus became the first major denomination to recognize-however indirectly-the "reparation" demands enunciated in Forman's Black Manifesto (TIME, May 16). Even this did not quite satisfy the militants. "The action is a political compromise," said the Rev. Frederick B. Williams, who accused the convention of channeling funds through the Black Churchmen "to avoid honestly facing" Forman...
Throughout the week's meetings, gaily dressed youths stood in the arena's bleachers, holding hands and taking turns quietly reading the names of all the Viet Nam war dead. At one point, the Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, introduced a procession of priests and youths bearing antiwar signs and wooden crosses aglow with psychedelic flowers and asked for "spiritual sanctuary" for two AWOL soldiers who had flown from Hawaii to the convention. Clearly the U.S. Episcopal Church, which for years has been a leader in the fight for change, was now ready...