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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developed their own institutions with the meager resources available. Inevitably, they re-created a pale imitation of the white world complete with their own coming-out parties and cotillions. They distinguished themselves from the black masses by quitting the Baptist and Methodist churches for the Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian or Roman Catholic denominations. Though treated like any other blacks by the white population, they took what comfort they could in their lighter skin. Some Negro colleges even requested photos from applicants to make sure they did not admit too many dark-skinned students...
...backwater. Today it is a rapidly growing city of 836,000, devoted mostly to its ancient pursuits of buying and selling and its somewhat newer ones of government and administration. The Suq Hamidiyeh, the city's famous central market, is built around the columns and arches of a Roman temple to Jupiter. Surrounding it are other suqs with countless hundreds of tiny shops offering everything from Persian carpets and Damascus silks to transistor radios. In the modern west end, tree-lined boulevards are full of patisseries, flower shops and fashionable boutiques, reminders of the days when Syria...
...Londonderry prison. The sisters were raised amid the revolutionary passions of Belfast's working-class Andersontown district, an I.R.A. stronghold. As teenagers, they shared a liking for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as well as for Irish folk dances. Both girls were and are devout Roman Catholics: a notebook that Dolours was carrying when she was arrested for the London bombings contained notes on the Virgin Mary along with details about her I.R.A. contacts...
...Stendahl Committee's proposal recommended that the present position of Preacher to the University be replaced by three co-equal preachers. The committee report suggested that these three preachers be: a Roman Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Protestant minister...
...Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Camara has gained notariety for championing the cause of the poor and oppressed, particularly in the Northeastern part of Brazil, one of the poorest sections of the world...