Word: rev
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...Rev.) Jesse L. Jackson
Suddenly the Rev. Samuel Walker Jr., a local Baptist minister, demanded silence of everybody in the room, bellowing: "All the ministers! All the newsmen!" As they gathered around, he prayed: "Help us, O Master, not to become angry but to love in times like these." Several people in the audience shouted: "Amen...
...corporations. Thus the league in a sense serves as a bridge between white executives and black ghettos. Although the people helped by the league are generally poor, many blacks regard it as a middle-class organization, but Jordan has won the respect of blacks from all backgrounds. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, calls Jordan "one of the ablest and most articulate voices in the civil and human rights movement...
...ardent pacifist and fighter for civil rights, Rustin has been involved in the movement for racial equality since his days as youth coordinator for A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington. Special assistant to the late Rev. Martin Luther King and the chief organizer of the civil rights March on Washington of August, 1963, Rustin has continually espoused non-violence and has advocated fundamental changes in the U.S. socioeconomic order...
After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Stokely Carmichael led a march down 14th Street that swelled into a riot. In four days, nine died, 1,000 were injured and 6,000 arrested...