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...have been wonderful [of the 1954 school desegregation ruling] if the church had led the Supreme Court? But the church didn't lead, and it didn't follow. We lack the moral courage to act." For the next two days, on the desegregated Methodist campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers and in the buildings of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, also desegregated, the churchmen sought sources of courage and plans of action...
...Leaving Scarritt College's Wightman Chapel, where they received communion from white and from Negro clergymen, the pastors were not all optimistic about the jobs they faced. A North Carolina preacher summed up the conference for the 300 who came and for the 4,000 who did not: "I always felt there were many others in the South that felt as I did, but I was never sure. Now I know that there are at least 299 others...
...limelight-as a Methodist missionary in Java. He was a brilliant linguist, but his sympathy for Indonesian nationalists made him unpopular with the islands' Dutch masters as well as executives of his own mission. Back in the U.S., he studied at several seminaries, then joined the faculty of Scarritt, a training college for Methodist church workers in Nashville, Tenn. He was forced to leave because of his liberal views. Recalls Hutchinson: there was a "furor over an interracial party held in his home, at which whites were reported to have danced with Negroes...
...moribund Kansas City real-estate firm called McCoy Land Co. sued as a taxpayer to prevent sale of bonds for a new Jackson County courthouse site on Oak Street. President of McCoy Land Co. was Lawyer William C. Scarritt of the prominent firm of Scarritt, Jones & North. Although a lower court ruled the McCoy suit had no merit, Lawyer Scarritt threatened an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Fearing further delay would cause the selection of another courthouse site, property owners of the proposed site on Oak Street hired Lawyer Henry Spotswood Conrad, agreed...
...knew this comedian in school days when he was a student at Scarritt Collegiate /nstitute in Neosho, when we "towners" referred to such students as the Sugar Coated /diots. GURNEY LOWE...
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