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...crucifixion in Memphis. In New York this week we began to roll the stone away. The crucifixion of April 1968 will become the resurrection of April 1984." Supporters sometimes come close to deifying Jackson too. The Rev. Calvin Butts introduced the candidate to the congregation of the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem by crying: "Jesse Jackson is the son of God! He will set the devil running away...
Their training culminates each winter in an original production; this year's, entitled "Freeze in Three Speeds," was performed two weeks ago at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Like many of their productions, it deals with problems associated with growing up and the feeling of alienation...
...reason, they say. involved reluctance by police to combat the problem. with considerable responsibility for this failure attributable to Johnson Community leaders like the Rev. Bruce Wall. Minister to Youth at the 12th Baptist Church in Roxbury and co-founder of Roxbury's Drop-a-Dime Program. charge that Johnson had difficulty communicating his ideas to the police on the street who then had to implement them. Such a lack of communication. Wall and others complain, made Roxbury and surrounding areas unpleasant places to live during the past decade...
...Bethel Institutional Baptist Church is the oldest congregation in Jacksonville, Fla., with a magnificent organ imported from Germany in 1902. Services for the all-black congregation usually begin with hand-clapping gospel music from Bethel's choirs. But there was a very different service a few days ago. Amid shouted "amens" from the congregation, preacher after preacher mounted the pulpit to testify. "Blacks are God's chosen people," thundered one; "I do believe Ethiopia shall rise," shouted another. Then came the most celebrated preacher among them, Democratic Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson. Standing under an arch outlined in blue...
Clergy in black churches, who exercise far more influence over their members than is the case in mostly white denominations, consider the cause well worth pushing for, even if Jackson loses. The Rev. T.J. Jemison, the president of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. (N.B.C.U.S.A.), estimates that between 90% and 95% of the denomination's ministers support Jackson. Says Jemison: "Even if he's not successful, he will raise the hopes of young blacks and aspirations of blacks around the country." Los Angeles Baptist Pastor E.V. Hill, who is openly campaigning for the candidate, says that "Jesse Jackson...