Religion: Words & Works

¶The Rev. Carey Daniel, pastor of West Dallas' First Baptist Church and brother of Texas' Democratic Senator (and candidate for governor) Price Daniel, offered to turn his church buildings into an all-white school if integration should be forced upon Dallas' public schools. "While correcting the evil of integration," said Pastor Daniel, "we also plan to correct several other evils." Items in the proposed curriculum: condemnation of the United Nations and "oneworld ideology," presentation of evolution "as a damnable heresy and not as scientific fact."

¶ Lack of cultural opportunities throughout the Soviet...

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