The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1948-04-10
Community
leadership
Is Theme T:
Speaker Calls for
Righteousness to
Fight Against Evil

HAMPTON INSTITUTE. Va
Sixty church leaders from ~i3
states, meeting at Hampton In-
stitute "Wednesday and Thursday
of last week heard challenging
addresses on the church re-
sponsibility for community lead
ership and the lmplementatson
of civil rights and diScuSsed
practical means of meeting The
problems involved.
The groups sponsoring the
National Conference Of CHURCH
Leaders were the Race Rela-
tions Department OF the Federal
Council of Churches, headed by
Dr. J Oscar Lee, who also is
executive secretary for the Con-
ference; and the Home Missions
Council OF North America, whose
Executive Secretary. DR.. Mark
A. Dawber. was one OF the main
speakers Wednesday
Democracy in America, DR..
Dawber told the conference. has
become imperiled by the decay
OF community life and il is
the responsibility of the church
20 attack the problem
SIN. A SOCIAL MATTER
We urgently need a theology
OF community redemption, de-
clared DR. Dswber Organized
evil calls for organized righteous
ness Eyil is no longer q
purely individual matter. Sin Is
becoming a social matter There
are thousands Of people who
can never be saved until the
community they live in is
saved.
DR.. Harry v. Richardson. Tus-
kegee chaplain, followed DR.
Dawber with a plea for a sense
Of community within the church
itself"
When racial trouble breaks
out IN the South said DR..
Richardson. the churches in the
community white and Negro,
have no unified word 20 say 4.
therefore, what they say doesn't
count"
Miss Dorothy Height, the
YWCAs national secretary for
lnterraclal Education, called for
church backing OF the Presidents
Civil Rights Bill
Urging that we lift this re-
port out of the low area OF the
November elections. into the
international area. she asserted:
We must set our own house in
order People arc not going
to be free anywhere until they
are free here in the United
PROJECTS PLANNED
Committee meetings met fol-
lowing the three main addt csses.
Definite community projects
We're suggested and discussed in
detail: was educating the COM
munity TO the need for full ap-
phcatlon of civil rights and full
fillment Of the duties of citizen
ship organizing interdenomins-
uonal cooperation within a com
munity; further educating rural
ministers and agriculturalists:
and improving rural commun-
ltles through church service pro-
Jects,
Jobu Yasumura, OF the Amer
ican Baptist Home Mission So
ciety was conference co-chair-
man with Dr. Mason Crum. OF
Duke University. who was I'M
able 10 be present Others on
the conference program included:
Dr. James CLAIR TAYLOR. First
AME Zion Church. Paterson. N.
j.; d. w II Jernagin. president
Of the National Baptist S. 5. and
B. 7 Y Congress, Washington,
d. c.. Dr. Forrest c. Weir. South
eastern Intcr-Council. Atlanta
Ga: Dr. T. p Murchison. Ma
tional CME Church. DR. J Vance
Mclver Union Baptist Church.
Orange " j.. DR. Thomas AL
len, Virginia Council Of Churches;
Rev. Charles Rush. Lincoln Me-
mortal Church. Chicago. III Dr..
Tolle l. Caution, National Prot
estant Episcopal Church; Or
Beverly Boyd Christian Socal
Relations Secretary. Fe d eral
Council Of Churches: Alonzo G..
Moron, Business Manager, Hamp-
ton Institute