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- Jul. 11, 1994: Died:Bishop Jospeh Durick
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jul. 11, 1994 From Russia, With Venom
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 15
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- <p> DIED. BISHOP JOSEPH DURICK, 79, clergyman; in Bessemer, Alabama.
- At 40, Durick was one of the youngest bishops in the country
- when, in 1955, he was appointed to the Mobile-Birmingham diocese.
- During the '60s Durick became one of the region's most outspoken
- supporters of civil rights for black Southerners, inspired by
- the social concerns of Pope John XXIII's Vatican II reforms
- and the crusade of Martin Luther King. Durick at one time implored
- King to abandon his confrontational style. The minister's response
- was the stirring "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
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