Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel and Mrs. Cook went to the U.S. too, settled at Greenville, Conn. The older Daniel grew, the more mediumistic he became. When the family sat down to breakfast, the furniture began to scuttle about. A Baptist minister, called in by Mrs. Cook to exorcise the spirits, could hardly make himself heard above the din of mysterious rappings. "So you've brought the devil to my house, have you?" screamed Mrs. Cook, hurling a chair at her nephew. When he was 18 she kicked...
...Advancement of Colored People and other Negro organizations sat on Attorney General Biddle's doorstep, demanding proper legal backing for the Court's decision. They would keep after him; this was an issue not lightly to be evaded, or easily stalled off. In Dallas, a Negro Baptist preacher filed as a candidate for the Dallas County school board. His alarmed white opponents used paid newspaper ads : "Vote the white ticket straight." In South Carolina, a Negro Citizens Committee raised more than $300,000 to fight for their voting rights in court. Every where below the Mason-Dixon line...
...heavy-bomber base in England, Chaplain Major Randolph L. Gregory, onetime Washington Baptist pastor, confirmed an oddly rough and reverent tale: One of the pilots at the station, a man of genuine piety and strict devotion to business, found his bomber butting into a buzz saw of Focke-Wulf 190s over Europe. Over the intercom to his gunners he started repeating the Lord's Prayer...
...guitar but knows only a couple of chords, has held two other public offices. In 1938 he sang his way into a job as Shreveport's Commissioner of Public Safety. In 1942 he strummed his way into a post on the State Public Service Commission. A "shouting Baptist," he was born in northern Louisiana's hilly Jackson Parish, one of eleven children of a cotton farmer. His grandfather had a local reputation as a buck-&-wing artist. Jimmie planned to be a teacher. He graduated from Beech Springs Consolidated School in a class of three and attended...
Disgusted Donors. Bulk purchasers of the pamphlet, in addition to the Y.M.C.A., included the National Smelting Co., the Junior League, the Federal Council of Churches, the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Said the liberal, nonprofit Public Affairs Committee, which publishes The Races of Mankind: "We have had no complaints; many servicemen have written for extra copies for buddies." The Y.M.C.A. said it would distribute its remaining 10,000 copies to civilian groups. Other reactions were not so measured...