Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes' just claim to equality has become all but submerged in the demand for black power, an increasing number of Christian laymen are turning cool toward unqualified stands for civil rights by their ministers and priests. Even congregations that applauded when their clergy marched off last year to Selma have sometimes turned deaf and hostile ears as the main battle over integration has shifted closer to home...
Taking It Easy. Typical of ministers who have decided to express their convictions more cautiously is the Rev. Noah Inbody of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Skokie, Ill. A Selma marcher, he returned home full of zeal for open housing, lost several wealthy parishioners as a result of strong sermons on the subject, faced the threat of losing touch completely with his middle-class suburban congregation. Although his opinions have not changed, Inbody no longer takes an active part in civil rights work. "I've had to take it easy," he admits. "I don't go out and pound...
...fissures of dissension widened even more. After a bitter floor fight, the N.A.A.C.P. passed a resolution indicating that it will no longer cooperate with most other civil rights groups. John Morsell, its assistant executive director, confided that the days of unified action among Negro groups, which made possible the Selma march and the march on Washington, are over. "In view of the sharp differences," he said, "unified action just seems unlikely." Some in the N.A.A.C.P., including Philadelphia Branch President Cecil Moore, openly challenged Wilkins' denunciation of black power. "What we need is a few more riots," he said...
...some steady individual customers like Rocketeer Wernher von Braun and the folk-singing Brothers Four, occasionally takes spot orders from others. Last year one of its planes picked up Martin Luther King in Alabama during the Selma march, flew him to a Cleveland speaking engagement, then back to the march. When Trans World Airlines President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. was unable to get a TWA flight from St. Louis to Washington for a dinner meeting with Lyndon Johnson, an EJA plane picked him up and got him there. EJA got a luminous letter of thanks from Tillinghast...
Runner-up in last month's Alabama primary, Clark got a second chance to keep his job when Dallas County's segregation-minded Democratic executive committee threw out six ballot boxes for "irregularities." The objective was to deny moderate Wilson Baker, Selma's former Public Safety Director, a majority and force a runoff. The discarded boxes, all from Negro neighborhoods, gave Baker 1,412 votes, Clark...