Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifty-cent ride included such standard attractions as Lincoln Oaks, where, the driver noted, a lady's handbag was once snitched by a playful swan and carried to an island inaccessible to anyone except the police. Other vital points of interest included the City Hall, the First Baptist Church ("Jesus Never Fails"), and the scene of an automobile accident which required the services of "three or four ambulances," the driver said with understandable pride...
Retired Railroad Conductor Bryant of Lebanon Junction, Ky. is a troubled man. Last week in The Review and Expositor, journal of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, he told...
...Christians and churches in other places. I found no other laymen crusading for integration, no pastors making an issue of segregation in their sermons, no concerted action for integration on the part of churches, no clarion call for unity of races in the worship of Christ by the Southern Baptist Convention, and there is silence in the denominational papers...
...plagued Bryant. Most of the vocal few were vocal on the side of the lily-white banner of segregation; Citizens' Council rallies could usually count on some Protestant clergyman to bless their gatherings. The Rev. Earl Anderson, for instance, 63-year-old pastor of Dallas' Munger Place Baptist Church, insisted that: "Now is the time for Citizens' Councils to put pressure on your preacher." And he propounded eight "reasons why it is not Christian" to invite Negroes into white churches: !) Negroes have their own churches, 2) Negroes don't invite whites to join them, 3) Whites...
...From Mississippi, a Methodist and a Presbyterian; from South Carolina, a Methodist and a Baptist; from Arkansas, a Baptist; from Virginia, a Campbellite; from Georgia, a Baptist...