Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHILE many militant blacks responded to the death of Martin Luther King Jr. primarily with fury, the Rev. Warner Traynham remained composed, preparing sorrowfully to turn the event into a springboard for serious civil rights action...
Traynham's views are very much a metamorphosis of Martin Luther King's own philosophy of non-violent social change. King was trying at the time of his death to expand the scope of his demonstrations. Traynham too would urge both whites and blacks to focus their attention away from individual acts of courage and sacrifice to the soliciting, instead, of corporate contributions of resources and social consciousness...
Vice President Hubert Humphry, who is expected to announce his candidacy sometime this week, is not on the ballot. But President Johnson, who renounced his candidacy March 31, and the late Rev. Martin Luther King...
...four proposals Afro presented to the University two weeks ago reflected the grief and anger that filled Negro Americans after Martin Luther King's death. While the proposals scored many glaring faults in Harvard's policy towards blacks, they were marked with an uncomfortably separatist tone...
Part of the fault was Hope himself, the Academy's perennial and usually excellent M.C. It was difficult to be funny under the circumstances. The Academy had postponed its awards by 48 hours, to honor the period of mourning for Dr. Martin Luther King. Judging by Hope's monologue, it would have been better not to try. "About the delay of two days," he began cheerfully, "it's been tough on the nominees. How would you like to spend two days in a crouch?" His final assignment was even more painful: the recital of Academy self-congratulation...