Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring night in 1921 the angry torches of 10,000 white mobsters set fire to Tulsa's Negro district. The flames roared through the tinderbox houses, completely destroyed the new $92,000 Mount Zion Baptist Church (Negro). It had taken Mount Zion's 600 members seven years to finance and build their first church. All that remained were charred walls and a $50,000 mortgage...
...plan worked well. Last week the first buff bricks of a new Mount Zion Baptist Church were laid. By June all the brick work will be finished, and the congregation will move from the basement into an auditorium seating 856. After that, bit by bit, still paying as they go, Mount Zion's members will complete their $150,000 building, a monument to patient perseverance-and a quietly Christian rebuke to racial intolerance...
...state must be kept at arm's length by the state." The statement was made public by Kenneth Leslie, left-wing editor of The Protestant. Among its signers: Dr. John A. Mackay (Presbyterian), of Princeton Theological Seminary; Bishop Francis J. McConnell (Methodist); Dr. Edwin Mc-Neill Poteat (Baptist), of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School...
...These sound sentiments were voiced last week by a man who is a Baptist by birth but a Christian by conviction . . ." --Time Magazine...
That was last December. Last week, in her second big Met role (Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde), Thebom did it again. The sustained critical cheers confirmed her triumph: not only had she successfully made the rare and perilous jump from a Baptist church choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan's stage, but she could plan to stay a while...