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Fast By Negro Pastor (Rec. 10 p.m.) ATLANTIC CITY (New Jersey). March 11. A negro pastor, once a sparring partner of the former heavyweight boxing champion. Jersey Joe Walcott, started a fast in his pulpit today in sympathy with the bus boycott at Montgomery. Alabama. The Rev. Russell Roberts, aged 32, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church, said he would “live and pray and fast in the church pulpit, taking only vegetable juices to sustain himself, ‘ for as long as God gives me strength.” During the fast, Mr Roberts said, the church would remain open day and night, and members of the congregation would carry Bibles with them at all times. , 4 Before beginning his fast. Mr Roberts sent a telegram to President Eisenhower, urging the President to speak out on behalf of the Montgomery negroes, who are boycotting the city’s bus system as a protest against segregated seating. “My fervent and prayerful hope is that you will lend the prestige of your great office to the struggle for dignity of the Christian men and women of Montgomery, Alabama. by speaking out in their behalf, and thus in the interests of democracy,” he told the President.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27916, 13 March 1956, Page 13
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