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...black militants met in Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church one night last year, shooting began outside. Seven bullets tore into a white policeman and killed him. Soon 50 white officers shot their way into the church, leaving 100 bullet scars on its walls and pews, and corralled 142 people including several small children. Judge Crockett, 60, rushed to police headquarters, legally created an impromptu courtroom and began releasing prisoners on their own recognizance. Within hours, the prosecutor agreed to let all but twelve go home. Over his objections, Crockett freed...
...American Baptist Convention, in which black members account for about one-sixth of the 1,500,000 total, last year elected Los Angeles Pastor Thomas Kilgore as its first black president. In the United Methodist Church, the 500,000 black members account for less than 5% of the total; until 1968 most were segregated in a separate Negro jurisdiction. Now six black bishops (out of 45 in the United Methodist Church) head integrated Episcopal areas, and even in the South, black district superintendents are being appointed...
...pulled out its big gun. Boston organizer Peter Camejo, to fan the heat of debate. With a gyrating, explosive demagoguery that would have done justice to a Baptist revival minister, Camejo attacked the radical minority's counterproposal, which added strike-support tactics and anti-imperialist teach-ins to the scheduled April march, as "partisan rhetoric." He then took three minutes to say, very movingly, nothing, making sure that every other sentence ended with an orgasmic, fist-shaking "We want our men home from Vietnam, and we want them...
...moves, and was encouraged when Governor Albert Brewer declared full state support for efforts to drive the Muslims out. The state filed several suits seeking to invalidate the Muslim purchase. Farm workers and whites dealing with the Muslims were repeatedly arrested on spurious charges. The tiny Pine Forest Missionary Baptist Church, whose cemetery is surrounded by Muslim land, filed damage suits of $250,000 against the Muslims for trespassing. Unofficial harassment was even worse. Six cows on the farm were shot and killed. Ray Wyatt, the white Pell City automobile dealer who sold the acreage to the Muslims, began receiving...
...bolstering the shaky economy of his piney-woods district by obtaining pork-barrel projects. A tireless worker, he goes to his office seven days a week, puts in ten hours each weekday. Despite his reputation for vituperative oratory, Patman in person seems more like a grandfatherly American archetype: Baptist, Mason, Elk, Shriner, Eagle and American Legionnaire (all of which he is). Briefly a widower, Patman two years ago married a Texarkana widow in her 70s, whom he had dated as a teenager. People who know him only from bombastic broadsides are often surprised at his cherubic smile, soft voice...