A national conference to bring to bear the moral force of the church and synagogue on the problem of racial segregation in the United States was announced today in a joint statement of organizations representing Catholics, Protestants and Jews. The conference will be held in Chicago next January 14-17.
Announcement of the conference, which the sponsors said was the first such meeting across major religious lines, was made by the Department of Racial and Cultural Relations of the National Council of Churches, the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council, and the Social Action Commission of the Synagogue Council of America. The latter organization represents the congregational and rabbinic associations of the three branches of American Judaism.
The sponsors said that 600 clerical and lay religious leaders from 40 Protestant, Jewish and Catholic groups are expected to take part in the conference. A joint letter of invitation to the conference was signed by Irwin Miller, president of the National Council of Churches, Archbishop William E. Cousins of Milwaukee, chairman of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference and Dr. Julius Mark, president of the Synagogue Council of America.
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