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Churches Strive for Integration Amid Persistent Segregation
Racial barriers remain at church doors despite official pro integration lines. The Associated Press reports a new militancy as churches switch from rhetoric to action, forming interfaith panels, financing nondiscrimination in construction, and backing demonstrations to press civil rights, with leaders arrested in integration protests.
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America
Associated Press
Dorothy
Ben
Alfred S. Kramer
National Council of Churches
National Council
Nterdenominational “Commission On Religion and Race
Corps of
Eugene Carson Blake
United Presbyterian Church
Blake
Daniel Corrigan
Episcopal Church
Baltimore
United Church of Christ
Denver
United Presbyterians
Disciples of Christ
Joseph Cardinal Ritter
St. Louis
Vincent S. Waters
Raleigh
N.C