Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assure you that Southern Protestantism is no less a political machine than the accusations it hurls at Catholicism. As a former Southern Protestant (Southern Baptist) for 21 years, I have seen school boards and city governments infiltrated by the religious "machinery" of the Southern Protestant churches-all in the name of religion, of course...
...have been a Baptist minister for 30 years and thoroughly enjoy the work. It has been said that if you can be a Baptist minister for 20 years, you can stand anything...
...Eagle Baptist Church...
Truman's intemperate words touched off a salvo of indignation. In Waco, Texas, a group of 72 Baptist ministers passed a resolution rebuking Truman "as a Christian, a Baptist, and a guest in our midst." In Washington, G.O.P. Chairman Thruston Morton (himself no slouch at name calling) described the Truman speech as despicable, degrading, a smear, low-road tactics, a back-alley campaign and a slur on the 35.5 million Americans who voted for Nixon in 1956. In a blistering telegram Morton called on Jack Kennedy "to disown Truman's attack and to apologize to the American people...
...Membership of the Northern Baptist Conference: 1,500,000. The two major Negro Baptist groups are the National Baptist Convention of America with 3,500,000 members, and the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. with 5,000,000. About one million Baptists belong to splinter groups...