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Fighter Of Apartheid Policy To Speak HereThe Rt. Reverend Richard Reeves, recently deported by South Africa for his opposition to its apartheid policy, will lecture at Kenyon on April 25.Withdrawal of the Union of Commonwealth heightens public interest in the current U.S. visit of the Rt. Rev. Richard Ambrose Reeves, S.T.D., former Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, who was deported by South Africa for his opposition to its apartheid policy.Bishop Reeves is making an extensive speaking tour across this country from April 8 to May 17. His recently published book, Shooting at Sharpeville: TheAgony of South Africa. is now being widely read here for its factual and pictorial account of the March 21, 1960, police massacre of peacefully assembled black Africans at Sharpesville, South Africa.Opposed to ApartheidOn March 2, the 61-year-old prelate resigned as Bishop of Johannesburg, where he had been since 1949. Long opposed to the apartheid (racial segregation) policy of the government, he made personal investigation of the Sharpesville massacre last year and then forced an official inquiry into the wounding ther of 253 unarmed men, women, and children, of whom 67 died. Subsequently he left Africa to avoid arrest. Two days after his return to Johannesburg in September 1960, he was forcibly deported by the South African government and went to his native England. He is now without a See.Born in Norwich, England, December 6, 1899, Bishop Reeves was educated at Cambridge University and at General Theological Seminary in New York City. From Cambridge, he received his B.A. degree in 1924 and his M.A. in 1943. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1927 and until 1931 was curate of St. Albans, Golders Green, serving then 1931-35 as rector of St. Margaret’s Church at Leven, Scotland. Active in the Student Christian Movement, he attended student conferences throughout Europe in the late 1929’s as secretary of its Theological College Department, and from 1935 to 1937 he was in Geneva, Switzerland, as secretary of the World Student Christian
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Gambier Kenyon Collegian
Gambier, Ohio, US
Tue, Apr 25, 1961
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