Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went to a predominantly white prep school in Pennsylvania, then studied English at Morehouse College. Lewis was one of ten children born to a rural sharecropper. He grew up wanting to be a minister -- he used to preach funerals for the chickens on the farm -- and attended a Baptist seminary. Bond and Lewis met in 1960 when as students they joined the fledgling civil rights movement, and they were among the founders of SNCC. Lewis became chairman and led the marches; Bond was the communications director who stayed back at headquarters...
...short man in a starched white shirt who now walks slowly and with a cane, Desyr protested his innocence over and over, producing a thin black Bible from his pocket and proclaiming somewhat incoherently in awkward French, "I am a good Christian. I am a Protestant. I am a Baptist...
...arrested for the June break-in at the offices of the Central America groups housed in the basement of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church have admitted their guilt, staff members of the Central America Solidarity Association (CASA) said yesterday...
...Rumanian prisons, contends that the First Lady has launched a determined campaign against religion. Father Calciu says more than 60 Orthodox churches have been demolished since 1977 as part of a drive to renovate urban centers by replacing architectural treasures and other traditional structures with monumental government buildings. Many Baptist churches and several Jewish synagogues have been razed...
After marching to Central Square and through Harvard Square, the group stopped at Old Cambridge Baptist Church (OCBC) where they were addressed by the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples, a sanctuary defense attorney, and a local reverend...