Word: zion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro church, as well, is stirring to the responsibilities demanded of it by the new militance. "The era of welfare colonialism is over," said the Rev. Calvin Marshall, pastor of the Park Street A.M.E. Zion Church in Peekskill, N.Y., at a conference of 700 Negro clergymen in Dallas. The delegates formed a National Committee of Negro Churchmen with the declared purpose of helping black people win more control of their own destiny...
...year period, testified that the Meridian chapter of the White Knights of the Klan had marked Schwerner for "elimination-the term for murdering someone." To lure Schwerner from Meridian, where he and his wife Rita were operating a Negro community center, said Miller, Klansmen burned down the Mount Zion (Negro) Church at Longdale, outside Philadelphia. Five days later, Schwerner and two companions, Goodman, a white man, and Chancy, a Negro, drove 50 miles to Longdale to inspect the ruins of the church...
Only three-fourths of Israel's reserves were mobilized when war began. Now the radio read out the code names of the remaining units: Love of Zion, Close Shave, Men of Work, Alternating Current, Open Window, Good Friends. Throughout the tiny nation, youths and middle-aged men scrambled into the streets, half in uniform, half in mufti, bundles and knapsacks thrown over their shoulders as they headed for their prearranged secret rendezvous with buses...
Both the land and the soul of Israel are sorely tried. Last week, 19 years after the Diaspora dream of return to Zion became a reality in the first Jewish state in almost 2,000 years, Levi Eshkol and his people found themselves besieged and threatened as few nations have ever been in their history. Tiny, dagger-shaped Israel, whose 2,700,000 people cling to 7,993 sq. mi. on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, faced the implacable hostility and cocked guns of 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people. Its borders were ringed with Arab troops...
...former "Saint" from "Zion," I must enlighten you on another closely guarded secret of the Mormon Church: once a member always a member...