Word: baptiste
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...Senator Ted Kennedy, 51, was mailed a recruiting letter by the Moral Majority, the 4 million-member right-wing faction headed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, 50, his archfoe. When word of the embarrassing gaffe leaked out, the organization good-naturedly invited the Massachusetts liberal to speak at Liberty Baptist College, the group's education stronghold in Lynchburg, Va. Although Kennedy got along well personally with Falwell, he strongly challenged the views of his hosts in an excellent speech (largely written by his press secretary, Robert Shrum). Said Kennedy: "The controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from...
About 70 people gathered at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church last night for the organizational meeting of the Cambridge Lesbian and Gay Alliance (CLAGA), where they heard candidates for both the Cambridge city council and the school committee address issues of discrimination...
...scene at the Los Angeles Convention Center last week was the annual assembly of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. (N.B.C.U.S.A.), a black organization that claims 6.8 million* members and is the nation's third largest Protestant denomination. The 35,000 delegates knew that history would be made. Although Martin Luther King was once a member, the N.B.C.U.S.A. had been so conservative on political and social issues that the organization took no active role in the civil rights protest movement...
...after King and other insurgents failed to unseat Jackson, they led 500,000 blacks out of the organization and formed the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The majority of black Baptist churches and minister stayed with N.B.C.U.S.A. out of loyalty to their denomination. Nonetheless, since Baptist congregations are autonomous thousands of N.B.C.U.S.A. churches simply ignored Jackson's preachments and supported King's struggle...
...Coretta King informed the roaring crowd in Los Angeles last week, her late husband had sought Jemison's counsel before launching the famous Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and with good reason Two and a half years earlier, Jemison, as the young pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., had organized the nation's first bus boycott. His campaign forced the city to integrate seating in its transportation system in just eight days...