Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commando unit, experimenting with new tactics of evangelism on the battleground of the Inner City. It has taken over, integrated and kept alive a dozen Protestant churches that threatened to close up shop when whites-only neighborhoods turned into Negro slums. Its West Side Christian Parish consists of three storefront chapels in a Negro district, one run by a dozen laymen and a minister who live together in shared poverty on a welfare-scale budget. Another society-sponsored church cheerfully operates out of a former...
...downtown Birmingham. Yelling and singing, they charged in and out of department stores, jostled whites on the streets, paralyzed traffic. Recovering, the police got reinforcements. Firemen hooked up their hoses. Motorcycles and squad cars, sirens blaring, rushed into the area. Two policemen grabbed a Negro, shoved him against a storefront-and found themselves caught inside a glowering circle of 300 Negroes. A voice growled menacingly: "Let's free him." But demonstration leaders quickly broke into the circle and managed to save the policemen. The riot ebbed-and then, an hour later, exploded again. In Kelly Ingram Park, hundreds...
...neighborhood. The measure of our success is not how many people you bring to church but how much impact you make." Cromey's mission has made its impact with colorful street processions on major church festivals, a wide range of new youth programs. His next project: a storefront submission in the 90%-Negro Hunters Point area. In addition to diocesan funds, Cromey hopes to get financial help from some wealthy suburban parish; he believes that "the suburban churches will have to pay the bills for the Inner City for some time to come...
Seven Days a Week. Most of these adherents are poor, few of them well educated. Their churches are simple-a storefront congregation in New York's Spanish Harlem, a barren cinderblock rectangle on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The minister is likely to be a factory worker himself, secure in the Pentecostal belief that "a man of God with a Bible in his hand has had training enough." Whether he calls his church Pentecostal or Holiness or Church of God, he emphasizes an event usually glossed over by mainstream Protestants: the Pentecost, 50 days after the Resurrection, when...
...cure juvenile delinquency is to ask bad apples why they have worms. So argues Psychologist Charles W. Slack, who came upon the method accidentally in a Harvard project started four years ago called Streetcorner Research. Originally, he set up shop in a Cambridge storefront and paid young punks to talk their troubles into a tape recorder to find out what made them tick. In the process, he discovered to his surprise that they talk their troubles out: the crime rate among Slack's subjects has fallen by half...