Word: baptiste
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Lost to Surgery. Smith has active staff privileges at one county and one private hospital, and limited privileges at Mississippi Baptist, meaning that he is restricted to the hospital's Green Annex, reserved for Negroes. He says he has to swallow hard every time he sends a patient there. It is still more frustrating if his patient needs surgery, for Smith is allowed to practice only in the annex, and of course the operating rooms are in the main building. Thus he has to turn his patient over to white doctors...
Sylvia agreed that the weather was humid and warm but she insisted she did not care. In fact, she said firmly, "That was the best mixer I have been to since Brotherhood Week when the Baptist Church decided to hold their annual dance in the Synagogue...
Aretha's father, the Rev. C. L. Franklin, was?and is?pastor of Detroit's 4,500-member New Bethel Baptist Church, where the preaching is so fiery that two white-uniformed nurses stand by to aid overwrought parishioners. Franklin commands up to $4,000 per appearance as a barnstorming evangelist, has recorded 70 steadily selling LPs of his sermons. He may not be a member of the Baptist Ministers Conference, but his Cadillac, diamond stickpins and $60 alligator shoes testify to an eminently successful pastorate. Just how successful is not altogether clear, although when he was convicted last year...
...soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetables on a wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?he give out the meter, a long and short meter, and the old mothers of the church would reply. This musical thing has been here since America been here. This is trial-and-tribulation music...
...Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of the Board, addressed a predominantly Negro audience at Shaw University, a Baptist college in Raleigh, N.C. Said Heiskell: "You black graduates who leave here-you black students who will follow-face a society whose institutions go hand in hand with a history of debasement, discrimination, deceit, hypocrisy and bigotry. The opportunity is for this generation of black Americans to remake the society. Those who take a lesser view underestimate the significance, or even the dimension, of the change that has taken place. For this generation has discovered itself, and in its newly found, self-gained pride...