Brotherhood Week, sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, was started today in more than 6,000 communities throughout the United States and Canada with special services in synagogues and churches. The Week will continue until next Sunday with programs aiming at promoting better understanding between men and women of different faiths and racial backgrounds.
The city of South Bend, Ind., was selected as the winner of the 1951 Community Human Relations award presented by the Conference “for outstanding improvement in relations among its religious and racial groups.” Noting that the Ku-Klux-Klan once ran rampant in Indiana, Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, said that South Bend deserved praise “for giving the nation an example to follow.” South Band is now free of discrimination or segregation in any public place, Dr. Clinchy said.
President Truman is honorary chairman for Brotherhood Week. Eric Johnston, Director of Economic Stabilization is general chairman and a long list of distinguished public, business and religious figures are serving as co-chairmen. World Brotherhood Week is being celebrated for the first time in the free nations of Europe under the sponsorship of World Brotherhood, an organization formed in Paris last June to eliminate hostilities caused by national, religious and cultural differences.
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