Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impetus. Birmingham's Negroes for years were unable to get together. Until recently, their only voice seemed to be that of Fred Shuttlesworth, now 40, a Baptist minister whose stubborn courage was sometimes mitigated by his fondness for melodrama. Shuttlesworth threw himself against Birmingham's segregation barriers with predictable results: he has been arrested 20 times since 1958, suffered four bad beatings, and his home has been bombed. Now the pastor of a Cincinnati church, Shuttlesworth still spends much of his time in Birmingham, where he is currently involved in 27 court cases...
...campaign in its closing weeks, the man to catch is still Governor Price Daniel, 51, an unimposing figure in a country judge's black suit and a crushed Stetson, who wants to become the first Texan to win four two-year terms in Austin. A former U.S. Senator, Baptist Daniel is a just-plain-folks politician who occasionally startles visitors to his office by dropping to his knees in prayer; he won by more than 1,000,000 votes in 1960 although he had bolted the party in 1952 to back Dwight Eisenhower...
...Christian mes sage in light of what the Scriptures say. Barth's own examination of this message is garrulous, eye-wearying, and studded with trackless deserts of scholarly foot notes. "Barth is just about the most gabby person that ever hit Christendom," grumbles Robert Hannen of Berkeley Baptist Divinity School. But Dogmatics is also wreathed with a knowledge of 1,900 years of Christian writing, and stands as the century's only equivalent to the summa of the medieval scholastics...
...example, even a cursory examination of American Church History would reveal that the Church of Christ is not "a dissident Baptist sect." But this is a small matter. More serious is the generalization that members of the Baptist church and the Church of Christ are "conservative and segregationist wherever they are found...
There are exceptions even to these rules, however: Arkansas' most prominent millionaire, Winthrop Rockefeller, is of course a Baptist, and he has been unrelenting in his efforts to liberalize the state's policies and image, in order to attract industry. Likewise, the Jewish community in the east (in Hot Springs, for example, whose gambling industry is largely Jewish-run), is far to the right: such prominent families as the Levys out-Walker General Walker (they are the source of his mysterious income...