Word: rummel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board pamphlet, "Baptists, Roman Catholics and Religious Freedom," in new demand. Published several years ago, the pamphlet has had modest circulation; this summer, requests for 300,000 copies have already rolled in. The religious issue is even being played with a special Southern twist. When New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel issued a pastoral letter deploring the resistance to public school integration, there was an uproar from the fringe. Snarled Louisiana's arch-segregationist Leander H. Perez, himself a Catholic: "The letter can only be interpreted as the Catholic hierarchy's endorsement of Kennedy for President...