Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alarmed by the violence, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger broke off his Easter vacation in southern Germany and went back to Bonn, where he warned the students to calm down or face the consequences. Meanwhile, in a display of the intertwining relationships between the young European radicals, students staged riots of varying degrees of violence in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam. At week's end, taking advantage of West Germany's troubles, the East German Communist regime issued an ominous warning that it was now barring all senior Bonn officials from traveling to and from West Berlin through its territory...
...decades the only place where the Negro could participate in any kind of real community life. The pastor-as the only Negro not dependent on the white man for his pay-also became the natural community leader. This is still true of the South. The vast majority of Southern Negroes are enrolled members of churches, and the civil rights movement has been led in great measure by men with "the Rev." before their names...
...abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality-and have allowed the movement to fall into militant secular hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found themselves alienated from skeptical youth-and teen-age looters in the recent riots were clearly...
...Just as the Southern Baptist Convention, with more than 11 million members, is the U.S.'s largest Protestant denomination, most Negro Christians are also Baptists. Negro Baptist churches have a combined membership of more than 8,000,000. The next largest Negro churches are: African Methodist Episcopal, 1,166,301 members; African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 1,100,000; Christian Methodist Episcopal...
...biggest shadow in Detroit's future is the growing popularity of foreign models. They now control 10% of U.S. sales, and in Southern California, the auto industry's most lucrative regional market, they have cornered an impressive 25%. Ford's Executive Vice President Lee lacocca says that it is a matter of price. "People say: 'Where can I buy a car for $2,000?' It's that simple...