Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police force in 1948, brought the 1951 N.A.A.C.P. convention to Atlanta (addressed one session personally, using the almost-unheard-of salutation: "Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen . . ."), desegregated the city's golf courses in 1956, recently ended taxicab segregation. Last week, as he discussed his departure, puckish Baptist Hartsfield could not resist one final rap to redneck knuckles: a threat to reconsider if the Democratic primary nominates an unworthy successor...
...BAPTISTS: Twelve thousand "messengers" gathered in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium to represent the 32,000 churches and 9,500.,00 members of the 104th Southern Baptist Convention and roundly denounced the very principles of unity. The proposals for church merger that are engaging the attention of many of the Southern Baptists' Protestant brethren, said the outgoing president, the Rev. Ramsey Pollard of Memphis, are "an indication of weakness rather than strength. Lack of conviction led to these denominations' decline, and the decline will continue because such mergers are based on expediency and convenience. Whenever you sacrifice conviction...
...ecumenical movement all that the Baptists were against. The U.S. Catholic hierarchy came in for a resolution taking them to task for waging "an aggressive campaign" to force federal aid to parochial schools. The resolution opposed grants, loans, tax support or any other direct Government assistance to private education. Yet one of the heroes of the convention was the Catholic politician whom last year's convention had officially opposed for U.S. President. The messengers voted unanimously to send a telegram to President Kennedy expressing appreciation of his stand against aid to parochial schools and for the separation of church...
...opening prayer, the Rev. Herbert O. Edwards of the Union Baptist Church, Cambridge, said, "Give our President the moral courage he so justly accused his predecessor of lacking. . . . Forgive our Attorney General for not realizing that change is never convenient...
These white-led groups have all contributed to Nashville's transition. But if any one person deserves major credit it is, by general agreement, a Negro: the Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, 40, hulking (6 ft. 1 in., 200 lbs.) pastor of Nashville's First Baptist Church. Says a Nashville merchant with whom Smith successfully negotiated a settlement of Nashville's lunch-counter sit-in strikes: "The mayor didn't have anything to do with it. The ministers didn't have anything to do with it. The community relations people didn't have anything...