Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever received in her lifetime. A shy woman, "Mama" King, or "Bunch" as her husband affectionately called her, stayed quietly in the background, but many friends called her the hidden force behind her crusading son and husband. "She sounded no trumpets to call attention to her greatness," said the Rev. L.V. Booth of Cincinnati's Zion Baptist Church at her funeral...
...King. Like most black women, Mrs. King had her strength tested early and often during the tense and turbulent days of the civil rights movement. As the wife of a fearless husband, living in an era when black men were not to show signs of manhood--an admonition that Rev. King Sr. ignored--Mrs. King was ever mindful of the most dreaded possibilities relating to her husband's safety. Time and time again I would watch her stand by his side as he spoke out against racial intolerance and insults to the human spirit...
...Atlantan. Her father had founded the church in which she was slain. Members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church and most of us who worked closely with her son, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., knew her as Mother King. It was not difficult to call her mother. She was first and foremost, and with great pride, a wife and mother. She was a black woman of unspoiled ideals, living a life of example and challenge that gave meaning to the latent and elusive concepts of love and respect for human worth...
...midweek, though, Northerners had elected a new moderator known to hanker strongly for union: the Rev. Robert C. Lamar, 52, a pastor from Albany, N.Y., who has co-chaired the Joint Committee on Presbyterian Union since 1969. As for the Southerners, they elected Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, 66, the first black man ever to become moderator of the once segregated denomination. At his investiture, Bottoms got one of the week's few laughs. As his predecessor put the chain with the traditional cross of office over his head, the new moderator remarked: "Any time any white person puts anything...
...many Navajos are outraged by the profiteering taverns in towns near the reservation border. In just the past ten weeks, more than 6,250 Indians have been taken into "protective custody" in Gallup for drunkenness. "Once Navajos start drinking, an incredible wave of hostility pours out," says the Rev. Henry Bird, director of the San Juan Mission. "The boiling sea is visible only when the defenses are down...