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The White church and its silence in the 60s Fifty-eight years before the Asatru Folk Assembly— in response to the silence of white churches on the Negro's fight against racial inequality and segregation—Dr., Mordecai W. Johnson, President Emeritus of Howard University in the February 1, 1962 issue of JET magazine, proclaimed: "Any church that supports segregation is a blasphemy against God and is already a walking body of death." His voice echoed throughout the country by like-minded religious leaders, politicians, activists, athletes, and children who voiced similar discontent as noted within these 1962 JET magazine storylines of the day: THE REV. ALCWYN L. ROBERTS of New York, quoting an unidentified Negro educator on race relations: "One conspicuously absent force in all our current strides toward freedom is the organized white church." — JET, March 1, 1962 ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT F. KENNEDY, chiding the nation's clergy for failing to come forward in the racial discrimination fight: "It is difficult to understand how a preacher can get up on Sunday and talk about love of God and the 'Ten Commandments,' and then not speak up on civil rights." — JET, May 31, 1962
JACKIE ROBINSON, on the burning of two Negro churches in Georgia: "It is a sad situation when even the most rabid of segregationist would stoop this low to defy the wrath of God and burn His house." — JET, March 8, 1962 PREACHES CHURCH BETRAYS CHRIST BY ALLOWING BIAS. The Christian church has "been false to itself and Christ" by allowing segregation and discrimination to flourish in the community, the Rev. Dr. John H. Krumm, chaplain of Columbia University, said. — JET, May 31, 1962
BILLY GRAHAM URGES COLLEGE INTEGRATION. Evangelist Billy Graham urged the Southern Baptist Convention in Miami, Fla., to integrate Negro students in its colleges because he felt it the Christian duty of every Baptist college to be unsegregated. — JET, June 5, 1962
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