Adrees    Latif/REUTERS Veteran civil rights activist Rev. Al    Sharpton walks to greet Michael Brown Sr., the father of    18-year-old Michael Brown, after speaking under a makeshift    tent next to the Flood Christian Church during Sunday service    in Ferguson, Missouri November 30, 2014.  
    FERGUSON, Mo.  On the seventh day they could not exactly rest,    but there were signs that residents, protesters, police and    business owners were beginning to turn an important corner amid    the strife of the past week and the bitter divisions of the    past months.  
    That is not to say the passions and tensions are evaporating on    Fergusons streets, where plywood covers shattered windows and    the National Guard stands vigil after dark over a dozen    burned-out shells of small businesses. The looting and    destruction came last Monday night, after it was announced that    a grand jury would not indict Officer Darren Wilson for fatally    shooting Michael Brown, 18, on Aug. 9.  
    The Rev. Al Sharpton     electrified a congregation of several hundred in a St.    Louis church with a 50-minute address that was part protest    speech, part theological call to action. Browns father,    Michael Brown Sr., and mother, Lesley McSpadden, sat in the    front row.  
    You won the first round, Mr. Prosecutor, but dont cut your    gloves off, because the fight is not over, said the activist    preacher and television commentator. Justice will come to    Ferguson!  
    Sharpton said the looters and arsonists do not represent the    young folk who are standing up and marching, and he urged more    people, young and old, to join the spreading movement. They    are the true patriots in this country, because they are asking    for the system to correct itself.  
    God is going to use Michael to lead this nation to deal with    police accountability, he said.  
    Amid Sharptons customary fire was the implicit message that    the protests are pivoting  justice for Brown is at the core,    but now it is framed in national and historic terms.  
    Ferguson is to this battle what ... Selma was to the voting    battle, Sharpton said. Local organizers have vowed that    protests will continue indefinitely.  
    As Sharpton was concluding, at a news conference in Ferguson,    Mayor James Knowles was proposing his vision of moving forward,    outlining plans for what he said will be one of the first    civilian review boards in the region to review complaints and    suggestions about police procedures.  
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In Ferguson, after a week of strife, some signs of hope and healing