Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beginning. Webb's early success is all the more striking because he was so recently at rock bottom, emotionally as well as economically. The son of a Baptist minister, he was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, started music studies at California's San Bernardino Valley College in 1966. Midway in his second semester, dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing...
...though we tried. We knew the people trusted us as much as they trusted any white man. We took part in their activities. One night we went to a fair in School 64--the Harriet Beecher Stowe School. Sunday morning, we went to one of the local Baptist churches. The neighbors would occasionally cook something for us--fried fish, perhaps, or a cake. The smaller kids adopted us and conducted guerrilla forays in the name of McCarthy. But they were our only converts...
...terms of total numbers involved, in the entire history of American Protestantism, the new body has a combined membership of slightly more than 11 million (10.3 million Methodists and 745,000 United Brethren). It thus becomes the U.S.'s second largest Protestant body, outnumbered only by the Southern Baptist Convention...
...given permission to serve as substitute teachers in the public high school. The only conditions made were that they not wear Roman collars and habits in class, and that students address them not as "Brother" but as "Mister." Says School Superintendent Harold Margrave, who classifies himself as a "softshell Baptist": "We've had nothing but mutual understanding and respect. We feel as though we've gained a service for the public school." Other leaders in the community feel the same way: last January, the local probation board asked the brothers to help counsel La Porte's problem...
...Just as the Southern Baptist Convention, with more than 11 million members, is the U.S.'s largest Protestant denomination, most Negro Christians are also Baptists. Negro Baptist churches have a combined membership of more than 8,000,000. The next largest Negro churches are: African Methodist Episcopal, 1,166,301 members; African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 1,100,000; Christian Methodist Episcopal...