Minister Dawkins marks 2nd anniversary at New York interracial church
Rev. Maurice A. Dawkins, a Chicago born New York educated leader, observes his second anniversary as minister of education and administration at Community Church of New York. He is the first Black to hold such a post in the nation’s largest interracial church. Dawkins directs 17 teachers, supervises building use, and hires staff. His sermon The Failure And ny of herhood Month sparked wide debate.
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Chicago
Maurice A. Dawkins
Community Church of
John Ben Holmes
Donald Harrington
Columbia Graduate and Union Theological Seminary
Dawkins
Dawkin
Christmas at Church Fails to Draw from Taverns in Richmond
In Richmond Virginia churches struggle to compete with beer gardens as Sunday openings start early. Beer venues draw 20 to 50 customers in small places and 75 or more in larger ones by 9:30 AM, boosting Christmas era bootlegging and gambling concerns. Ministers decry sun day permits for beer gardens.
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Richmond
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Protest over Roosevelt Ward Jr. draft notice case
A mixed group of youths visited the Justice Department to protest suspected vindictive action against Roosevelt Ward Jr. of the Labor Youth League. Ward, after a New Orleans trial, received three years for failing to notify his draft board of a change of address, was freed on 15000 dollars bail, and told to return to New Orleans during an appeal, amid protest in New York and threats to bail.
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Washington
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U. S. Department of Justice
Roosevelt Ward, Jr
Labor Youth League
New Orleans
Ward
New York
Methodist Delegates Seek End of Negro Jurisdiction
Delegates to the 1952 General and Jurisdictional Conference met in Washington to discuss proposals to abolish the racial jurisdiction system. Representing Baltimore area conferences covering Delaware East Tennessee North Carolina and Washington they voted to back a memorial by the Baltimore Area Council urging the San Francisco meeting to abolish the jurisdiction.
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The
Methodist Church
Ashbury
Baltimore Area
Delaware
East Tennessee
North Carolina
Washington
Baltimore
General Conference
San Francisco
Virginia Visits Leave Mark On My Frayed Conscious
A reflective note from a traveler in Virginia describes recent trips over two weeks, condemning the rush for material gifts among friends and acquaintances while urging the embrace of spiritual gifts as essential in a world of hurried commerce and shallow exchanges.
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Virginia
Catholic Hospitals Commended for Equal Nursing Status
Jewish and Protestant groups joined the Catholic Inter-racial Council in praising a West Virginia hospital for granting colored and white nurses equal status. The resolution followed St. Francis Hospital in Charleston retaining its three Negro nurses after most white staff quit in protest.
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Catholic Inter-racial Council
West Virginia
St. Francis Hospital
Charleston
W. Va
Veg Inter-racial Council
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