Word: baptistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senate House Methodist 18 84 Roman Catholic 11 75 Baptist 14 55 Presbyterian 13 52 Episcopal 12 45 Congregationalist 8 19 Lutheran 4 15 Disciples of Christ 2 14 Jewish 2 8 Mormon 3 4 Evangelical and Reformed 2 4 Unitarian 2 3 Quaker 2 2 Church of Christ 4 Universalist 2 Christian Scientist 2 Apostolic Christian 1 Evangelical Free Church 1 Hindu...
Some six hours after he had been released on $1,000 bond for joining five Negro ministers in a violation of Georgia's bus-segregation laws (TIME, Jan. 21), the Rev. William Holmes Borders was back in the pulpit of Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church to pay his respects to one of Georgia's outstanding citizens...
...crusaders made house-to-house calls among the 75,000 people of the area, announced as doors opened: "We'd like to talk to you about the difference Jesus Christ makes on the job." This week they are holding a series of evening meetings in a local Baptist church (chosen for its location rather than denomination) which are addressed by machine operators, clerks, union leaders, foremen and company officials. Slogan of the two-week crusade: "Just the job"-a non-U British expression synonymous with "just the ticket...
...racing drivers and members of an Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public Information. Baptist ex-President Harry Truman came to see him, as did Moslem President Sukarno of Indonesia, the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, the Seventh International Astronautical Congress, to whom he said that their efforts to explore the universe were legitimate before...
...other places in the South last week, the anti-bus-segregation drive-and reaction to it by white extremists-went far beyond litigation. In Birmingham, Ala. the Rev. Mr. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 34, antisegregation leader and pastor of a local Negro Baptist church, told the city commission to end bus segregation by the day after Christmas, or "we will take whatever action is necessary." Late Christmas night six or more dynamite sticks blasted the Shuttlesworth house. Miraculously, Shuttlesworth and his family escaped serious hurt. Shuttlesworth next day led some 150 of his followers in broad-scale, nonsegregated bus riding, later...