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...young apostle of nonviolence in the '60s, was arrested more than 40 times in civil rights demonstrations, and his skull was fractured at Selma in 1965. Since 1970 he has headed the Voter Education Project in Atlanta and helped register some 3.5 million blacks. As a Baptist seminarian, Lewis was kidded for talking up the Social Gospel, but he insists that some "immutable principles" must be at the base of the "Beloved Society" he envisions, and nonviolence is one of them. If a compassionate world is the end, he argues, "then the means we use must be consistent with...
...Jack Hyles and members of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Ind. [Dec. 1], seem more interested in getting their names into the Guinness Book of World Records than the Lamb's book of life...
Reverend James Coleman of the Concord Baptist Church in Roxbury, in a speech to a small group of faculty and students at Phillips Brooks House last night, asked students "to get involved to rise up in indignation when peoples' rights are violated...
...open letter, which is co-sponsored by a group of black Divinity School students, refers to last week's firebombings of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Boston office and the home of Reverend James Coleman of Concord Baptist Church in Roxbury...
...private schools, like Briarcrest, insist that they have "open" admissions and are segregated only because no blacks have applied. But they concede that white hostility to desegregation accounts for much of their growth. "We've got parents who are running from problems," says Wayne Allen, a Baptist minister who is chairman of the Briarcrest board of trustees. "Anyone who says different is not telling the truth...