[News Script: Bishops ] Page: 1 of 2
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DALLAS-- OUR NEW BISHOPS ARE TO BE ELECTED BY THE DELEGATES TO THE
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT THEIR QUADRENNIAL GENERAL
CONFERENCE WHICH IS NOW UNDERWAY IN DALLAS.
(ouT 50 CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN CAMPAIGNING FOR THE HIGH CHURCH
POSITIONS SINCE THE CONFEREtCE OPENED A WEEK AGO APINBOOTHS,
POSTERS, PINS AND LITERATURE HAVE FLOODED THE CORRIDORS AND ROOMS OF
ThE DALLAS MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM WHERE THE MEETING IS BEING HELD.
~CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER---THE. REVEREND JESSE JACKSON, WHO ADDRESSED
THE CONFERENCE LAST NIGHT---HAS TOLD NEWSMEN THAT ''THE HANDS THAT
PICKED COTTON IN 1964 CAN PICK THE PRESIDENT IN l972~4.~
JACKSON SAID THERE ARE NOW SEVEN (M) MILLION REGISTERED BLACK VOTERS
AND HE PREDICTED THAT THE OPPONENT OF PRESIDENT NIXON COULD WIN THIS
YEAR WITH 20 PER CENT OF THE NEGRO VOTE.
ACKSON BLASTED EXPLO '72, THE YOUTH ~EVANGELISM MEETING HELD IN
DALLAS RECENTLY, CHARGING TH AT IT AVOIDED ''SUCH ISSUES AS RACE,
WHICH IS A PARAMOUNT RELIGIOUS ISSUE.'
SAID THE REVEREND JACKSON ''Jt7r0 I' JU G A HAVIN
JESUS-FITS IN THE RIVER---THAT'S WKAT PE PLE C T CU
BLACKS OF DOING......THERE USED TO BE A CHEAP BOOZ L CK
COMMUNITY CALLED 'SPLO.' EXPLO WAS KINDA LIKE SPL -- CHEAP HIGH.''
Ifl35ACD 06-28-72
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Bishops ], script, June 28, 1972, 12:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1543985/m1/1/?q=%22Religion%2b-%2bDenominations%2b-%2bEpiscopal%22: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.