Word: segregationism
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Shirey, pastor of a Cullendale. Ark. church, was asking the 95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) for a quick vote on the most disputed issue facing its six-day convention: a request that the assembly "reconsider and rescind" its 1954 pronouncement that "segregation is un...
The temper of the assembly had already become evident, and it was not in tune with the temper of Pastor Shirey. On opening night it elected as its new moderator Dr. James McDowell Richards, president of racially integrated Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., and an outspoken antisegregationist. In a...
The factional dispute among Southern Presbyterians pointed up a problem that faces every Christian church in the South, now that the Supreme Court's ruling on education has turned the spotlight on segregation in every sphere of life. "The churches . . . are not responsible for the ordering of society through...
¶The Protestant Episcopal Church has a relatively liberal attitude toward integration. The North Georgia Convention recently declared that "segregation on the basis of race alone is inconsistent with the principles of the Christian religion." In Atlanta, while services are segregated, white and Negro children are confirmed together, and whites...
¶The all-white Southern Baptist Convention, biggest Baptist group in the world (membership: 7,883,708), has taken an equivocal stand on segregation, last year commended the Supreme Court for "deferring" application of its ruling on desegregation. Two Negro Baptist conventions have 7,133,357 members, operate separately from...