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...CAME TO PASS LAST WEEK THAT 219 YEARS after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, 132 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 41 years after the Supreme Court struck down segregation and three months after Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment, the Southern Baptist Convention finally got around to admitting that slavery is sinful and asked forgiveness from blacks for its historic role in defending segregation...
Forgive me for being underwhelmed by this astonishingly belated act of contrition from the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Like most African Americans, I would have been more impressed if the revelation had come a generation ago, when prominent Southern Baptists like George Wallace were standing in the schoolhouse door and never-miss-a-Sunday Ku Klux Klansmen were murdering fellow Christians who believed in civil rights. Instead the message from many Southern Baptist pulpits was that God himself had ordained the separation of the races and that to tamper with it was to go against his will. "Just think...
They had a Baptist Wedding in Columbia (thoughthe Campbells now belong to the Church of theBrethren), and quickly moved back to Warsaw. Thenewlyweds taught for a year, but soon decided togive up teaching to start an insurance agency...
Bragg is positioned to someday assume such a role on the larger stage of local or national politics. He has powerful mentors, including the Rev. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of Harlem's influential Abyssinian Baptist Church...
...street names are a good reminder of thepast political and cultural potency of the areaoften called the "capital of Black America."Powell, the only Black member of the U.S. House ofRepresentatives in the middle of the century andperhaps Harlem's most famous politician, waspastor of Bragg's own Abyssinian Baptist Church...