Creator’s afterthought in Genesis prompts church school row
A column riffs on Genesis to critique a Protestant Episcopal Day School in Jackson Mississippi. The Board of Trustees removed the rector after he attended a bi racial meeting on March 28. Tape interviews reportedly used by Claude Litton of the New York Times are noted as part of the controversy.
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God
St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Day School
Jackson
Miss
Claude Litton
New York Times
Atlanta
Edward H. Harrison
The Other Side of Jordan review by Harry Ashmore
The review commends Ashmore for dispassionate probing of the Negro problem in the South. It notes his background as Arkansas Gazette editor and cites his prior work An Epitaph for Dixie as context for The Other Side of Jordan.
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Jordan
Harry S. Ashmore
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
New York
Cuba
Laos
South
South Carolina
Toqueville
United States
Harry Ashmore
Arkansas Gazette
Little Rock
Dixie
When Good Men Silence, Evil Grows in Silence
Donald J. Thorman argues that moderate Catholics and lay leaders fail to act on segregation, allowing organized segregationists to gain control. He cites 1958 bishops on discrimination and presses for urgent, public action by all faithful to oppose racial injustice.
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White Citizens Council
Supreme Court
North
Christ
Donald J. Thorman