Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replacement among S.C.L.C.'s rising officials seemed to be its brilliant executive vice president, the Rev. Andrew Young. "A guitar has room for many strings," says Jackson. "We need to orchestrate harmony, not rivalry...
With black and white political roles reversing in Greene County, clichés turn about as well. One black commissioner says of the whites: "All they've ever done is farming. They're too lazy to work." The Rev. Thomas Gilmore, who will run against Big Bill Lee for sheriff, is more compassionate: "Whites have been trained never to listen to blacks. Their minds are so messed up with hate, they just can't understand the problems of black people." Sitting in a gas station, Ernest Brown, 58, takes a longer view of the success...
...they see violence as a condition of their lives and a possibility in their futures. But they are not alone; to a large extent, young blacks merely share the larger society's apocalyptic visions. What is more important is the new and insistent image of self. Says the Rev. Edward Rodman, a young black Episcopal minister in New Haven: "The black kids want to define their relationship to white society themselves. As Sartre puts it: 'We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made...
...churches, the rude clapboard of country chapels, the salvation-emblazoned windows of tattered store fronts. It is a montage of impressions, some real, some misleading: the low-moaning spirituals, the clapping and the shouted amens; the phenomenon of a Father Divine and the curious charisma once possessed by the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell; the prophetic, nation-shaking philosophy of a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the pragmatic, neighborhood-building politics of a Rev. Jesse Jackson...
Last January, Massachusetts became the first Episcopal diocese to be headed by a black bishop, the Right Rev. John M. Burgess. And 800,000 black Roman Catholics (only 1.7% of the nation's Catholics) have successfully won a national secretariat, which, among other demands, will seek activities to augment the sparse number of black priests...