Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King's mission is to turn that potential for violence into successful, direct, nonviolent action, and he works at the job 20 hours a day. He has moved back with his wife and four children to Atlanta, where he shares the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father. His house, near the church, is an old, two-story, four-bedroom place. Paintings with African themes and a photograph of Gandhi hang on the walls. There is a threadbare scatter rug in the living room, two chairs protected with plastic, and a couch in need...
Montgomery. The first big test of King's philosophy-or of his operating technique-came in 1955, after he had married a talented young soprano named Coretta Scott and accepted the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery...
Reexamination. What the Negroes expect, and what they are getting to a degree that would have been astonishing at the start of 1963, is a change of attitude. "A lot of people," says Chicago's Negro Baptist Minister Arthur Brazier, "are re-examining their motives. Even if this means that a lot of hidden prejudices have been uncovered in Northerners, good will be gained from the fact that Americans have been forced to act on days other than Brotherhood Days and Weeks...
...these folks a wonderful tour when they come for the barbecue on Friday." Johnson hugged her, whispered something. "Whatever you say, honey," said Lady Bird, and the tour was on. There was a framed letter from one of Johnson's great-grandfathers to Sam Houston: "He was a Baptist preacher, and he was writing to renew a note at 8% interest and also to complain that his congregation was behind on pledges," and a picture of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Lyndon quipped: "He's Lady Bird's boy friend...
Yearbook statistics, which are compiled by the mostly Protestant National Council of Churches, show that Roman Catholicism continues to make the greatest gains. The U.S. now has 43,847,938 Catholics, an increase of 2.3%. The largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention (10,191,303), which took the lead for the first time since the organization of the present Methodist Church (now 10,153,003) in 1939. But in relationship to the total U.S. population, Protestant affiliation declined by .3% since the previous year...