Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense, that is the message of the hippies and the white middle-class youth who are fascinated with dropping out and with rebelling against a system predicated on success. In some way, they may carry a lesson for the U.S. Yet their approach, with its faddish overtones of yoga, zen and similar other-worldly philosophies, is hardly adequate...
Wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair ("for her daddy who is far, far away") Lucinda Desha Robb, 6 days old, left the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., to take up temporary residence in the White House. There, dressed in a long white gown that once belonged to her mother, wearing white crocheted booties and wrapped in a white blanket knitted by her paternal grandmother, Lucinda formally met the press for the first time. Grandfather Lyndon Johnson summed up the family's feelings about its latest addition: "Wonderful," he beamed...
Near closing time in the dining room of St. Louis' Gateway Hotel last week, six customers were lingering over their table. "Why don't you boys get out so I can go home?" said the white woman cashier. Unfortunately, the "boys" happened to be delegates to the annual conference of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, which was being held in the hotel. In protest against what they considered a racial slight, the 400 black ministers attending the meeting stalked out of the Gateway and finished their convention in an Episcopal church. The incident typified not only...
Many of the churches have tried hard to answer these demands. Last year, for example, the United Church of Christ elected the Rev. Joseph Evans of Chicago, a Negro, as its denominational secretary. The United Methodist Church has assigned black bishops to predominantly white areas of Iowa and New Jersey, and even to one district which encompasses parts of Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Last month the Rev. Richard Owens, pastor of the People's Baptist Church in the black ghetto of Boston's Roxbury area, was elected president of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention...
...White Reluctance. Even so, the Black Power movement within the churches exists more in fancy than fulfillment. One reason for this is that Negroes constitute an extremely small minority within most denominations: despite its progressive policies on race, the 2,000,000-member United Church is only 2% black. Another problem, particularly for those churches which emphasize lay authority, is that the majority of white congregations still tend to be reluctant to accept a black minister in the pulpit, even when a well-qualified one is available. As a result, many Negro clergymen are turning away from the goal...