Word: supporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over mission resources to the black and the poor. As a measure of its concern, Rose said, the council should also elect a black general secretary. Yet the insurgents never presented the proposals coherently at the assembly. And when the chance came to nominate a candidate, they threw their support behind the unlikely choice of the National Committee of Black Churchmen: Leon Watts, 34, an articulate but little-known minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Even more unrealistic was the rebels' choice for president-the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., 58, pastor of Detroit's Shrine...
Blacks at B-School Support OBU By Hour-long Building Takeover
...wanted to show support of some type for the black students who had taken over University Hall," one black student said. "At the time, it was not known whether the black students had left University Hall," he added...
...Support of OBU Voted by Whites; Action Uncertain
...About 100 white radicals with varying political affiliations voted last night to support the five OBU (Organization for Black Unity) demands...