Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supplies were donated by Boston University Medical School and local doctors and stored in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, across the street from the Freshman Union...
...government is complicit in these break-ins," said Bob Warren of the Central America Solidarity Association, whose office in the basement of the old Cambridge Baptist Church has been broken into six times in 16 months...
...N.A.A.C.P. organized a boycott of Dearborn's stores, including those at Fairlane Town Center, a 2,360-acre complex that includes the state's largest shopping mall. Before the boycott, an estimated 28% of Fairlane's shoppers were black. Says the Rev. Charles Adams, minister of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and head of the Detroit N.A.A.C.P.: "They welcome us to shop in their stores, but don't allow us to stop in their parks. If we're not good enough to stop, we feel we're too good to shop...
Jerry Falwell, 52, presides at the 21,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va., whose Sunday worship is seen in 172 markets. A Fundamentalist of genial manner and granite opinions, he used his TV clout to launch Moral Majority, the influential conservative political lobby. That group was subsumed last month under the new Liberty Federation, signaling Falwell's increased involvement in foreign affairs. He also runs Liberty University (7,000 students) in Lynchburg. The 1985 receipts of Falwell's ventures: $100 million. Last year he started a Sunday-night call-in show on Ted Turner's superstation, WTBS...
...town see it differently. Burdella Minter, who moved to Hanford in 1973, began researching Hillery's case after being asked to sign one of the petitions to deny him parole. An organist for the black congregation of the Second Baptist Church, she helped lead a drive in support of parole for Hillery, mustering 480 signatures. Minter believes that if a fair trial finds Hillery guilty, he should go back to prison. "If you do the crime, you do the time," she says, with the air of someone who has thought about what the words mean: her own stepson is serving...