Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integration hotspots of 1956, Clinton, Tenn., was the hottest. Incited to riot by Yankee Racist John Kasper, Clinton roughnecks tried to chase Negro pupils away from high school, beat up a Baptist minister, forced Governor Frank Clement to call out the National Guard, and brought on a court case in which Kasper and six others were found guilty of criminal contempt (TIME. Aug. 5). Last week Clinton High School opened for the 1957-58 school year with eight Negroes present. It was a calm day: the troublemaking minority squelched, integration had been established in Clinton. Tennessee's next test...
...annual executive meeting of the Baptist World Alliance in Hamilton. Ont., the Rev. Theodore Adams of Richmond (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), president of the alliance, charged that Baptists are being persecuted in many Latin countries-especially Spain and Colombia. But in Russia, reported Moscow's red-bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said...
...pawn, became the heart of an empire that stretched from the Pyrenees to the Punjab. Enlightened and energetic, Syria's new rulers drained the country's marshes, irrigated her steppe, gave Damascus a water system-still functioning-and converted the Byzantine Church of St. John the Baptist into one of Islam's great shrines, the Ommiad Mosque, still standing in gilded glory. For centuries, while Europe was in its dark ages, the Arabs were the light of civilization, preserving the ancient heritage of scholarship, devising Arabic numbers and making great strides in mathematics and science...
...Next Prize ..." After the ceremony (performed by Lee's father, the Rev. Carrie Calhoun of the Evening Star Baptist Church of Gary, Ind.), the couple moved from the chapel set into the "reception room" with its artificial ivy, phony fireplace and tableload of shiny booty. The stagehands had already poured the Moet & Chandon champagne, and NBC had trundled in Jackie Robinson to greet the newlyweds. After some cued-in applause and plugs for Jackie (as an executive of Chock Full o' Nuts and publicity man for Look), there was a telegram from Floyd Patterson, also arranged...
...Admitted five new member churches: the U.S.'s Evangelical Lutheran Church (1,000,000 members), the Burma Baptist Convention (200,000 members), the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (20,000 members), the Christian Reformed Churches in Indonesia (2,300 members) and the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, B.W.I. (12,000 members...