Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a man whose friends call him "the finest Christian in the community," Pastor Jones has strong views about race segregation. He likes Negroes to come to his church, and this policy, even in "liberal" Chapel Hill (pop. 9,177), has raised many Southern eyebrows. One night in 1948, after...
Only the Bulletin Board. As churchmen, Pastor Jones's fellow Southern Presbyterians cannot quarrel with his views against race segregation, for the church has abolished its last segregated Negro synod-fulfilling the letter as well as the spirit of the law. But a few members of the congregation protested...
In 1903, came the Black Death. Malcontents spread a rumor that Dr. Scudder's anti-plague inoculations were really a lethal device of the British government to reduce India's population. Even having the body temperature taken was supposed to prove fatal. Ida Scudder sallied forth alone to...
Close Pattern. He moved with easy familiarity through the vast areas of Government, from war to the conservation of river valleys, from taxes to segregation-specifying where new executive policy was required, where legislative action was needed, where he would launch new fact-finding surveys and studies before making changes...
The 82 Presbyterian churches of the Detroit presbytery, like most other U.S. churches, are divided among white and Negro congregations. At their annual meeting last week, the pastors and elders of the Detroit presbytery decided that church is no place for segregation. After admitting "with regret and shame" that U.S...