clergymen

Women and girls who became pregnant outside marriage were sent to the laundries by their families, welfare authorities, the courts, police, clergymen and church organisations.

Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.

With other prominent Black clergymen, he helped to win the release of Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in South Africa.

He was co-chair of the Gathering, a group of 200 South Los Angeles clergymen who protested the Los Angeles police shooting of Eula Love in 1979, and headed the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.