Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Municipal election day came clear and warm last week to Clinton, Tenn. Main Street was gay with holly and Christmas lights. The Rev. Paul Turner, 33, pastor of the First Baptist Church, the community's largest, dressed slowly before setting out on a mission of importance and, as it developed, of danger. On the outskirts of town, a small band of white men glared up at the cluster of homes atop Foley's Hill, where live the Negroes whose children would try soon again to attend Clinton high school. Thus did Clinton (pop. about 3,700 law-abiding...
...Clintonians work for Union Carbide Nuclear Co. at nearby Oak Ridge, where, as at other federal enclaves, the schools have been successfully integrated. Most of Clinton's 48 Negro families own their own homes and have long been accepted as solid, sober members of a solid, sober (and Baptist-dry) community...
Powell M. Cabot '18, University Marshal, died Saturday in the New England Baptist Hospital. He was also business manager of the laboratory of physical chemistry related to medicine and public health...
...mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy" an almost total boycott of the city's segregated buses (TIME, April 2 ). Led by a handful of well-educated and young Negro leaders-notably by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of a local Baptist church-they had efficiently put together and operated a car pool of some 200 vehicles to ferry themselves to and from work. Now the leaders and lawyers sat glumly in the Montgomery County courthouse waiting for the state circuit court to outlaw the Negro car pool on the charge-made...
...carry blurbs from churchmen ("Moving"-Spellman, New York Archdiocese). The line-up was impressive. Methodist Dr. Ralph 'Sock-man: "It brings the authentic views of the Bible's landscape to the man living on Main Street.'' Dr. W. A. Criswell of Dal las' First Baptist Church: "We are not the same after we have lived through the experience of following Moses through this picture." Rabbi Abraham J. Feldman: "Stirring film. I was moved...