Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus had barely left Newport after talking to President Eisenhower when Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Baptist minister, demanded a presidential audience for Negro leaders, to wit, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Ike agreed, leaving vague the time and place...
This week the Democrats got from Democrat Powell (who bolted to Ike in 1956) the first returns on how the Arkansas mess might sound in political language. Said Powell to his packed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Manhattan: "I must sharply condemn my fellow Democrats for daring to insert politics into this sensitive question. How dare Adlai Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat...
More Than He Could Handle. Faubus had other qualms. The political effect of his stand was not quite what he had expected. His old boss, Sid McMath, was busy rounding up liberals to denounce what Orval had wrought. Little Rock's respected Congressman Brooks Hays, top Baptist layman (president of the Southern Baptist Convention), checked with the city's leading citizens, found them shocked and ashamed...
...Knight blasts bothered Knowland he did not show it. He was moving through Southern California, drawing big crowds (a congregation of 1,000 at St. Paul Baptist Church in Los Angeles' Negro section gave him a scroll for his work on the civil rights bill). Openly tapping the well of conservatism in California, he continued to call for restrictive labor legislation. Did he think he was driving California Republicanism to suicide to further his own ambitions? Why, said Bill Knowland with his frozen grin, a brisk primary might inject new life into the California G.O.P...
Across the sun-dappled campus of Ohio's Oberlin College, Eastern Orthodox patriarchs in flowing robes and beards strolled alongside Baptist ministers in business suits and Salvation Army officers in uniform. All were delegates to the North American Conference of Faith and Order convening last week for eight days of open-minded probing and discussion of Christendom's most elusive quest-church unity. Participating were 289 delegates representing 34 Protestant denominations and five Eastern Orthodox bodies...