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challenging segregation and the oppression of black people. As chaplain at Yale in the early 1960s, Coffin organized busloads of
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and became famous for his anti-war activities and his civil rights activism. Along with others, he was a founder in the early 1960s of the Clergy and Laity
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program at
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when many liberals still were uncomfortable with homosexuality. Some of the congregation's socially conservative members openly disagreed with his position on sexuality.
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Paris, Peter J.; Cook, John Wesley; Hudnut-Beumler, James; Mamiya, Lawrence; Tisdale, Leonora Tubbs; Weisenfeld, Judith (2004).
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William Sloane Coffin Jr. was born into the wealthy elite of
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