Word: burlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool to the few Negroes who dropped in. Thirty churchgoers are not very many. In the hope of increasing church membership. Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of the California-Arizona Methodist Conference decided to give Normandie Avenue a Negro pastor. District Superintendent Ray W. Ragsdale appointed 39-year-old Nelson Burlin Higgins Jr. A descendant of four generations of preachers, Higgins is a husky ex-athlete who went through Louisiana's Roman Catholic Xavier University on a football scholarship, later trained for the ministry at Philadelphia's Temple University...
After Brown had scored twice in the second quarter, the Yardlings recovered a third-quarter Burlin fumble on the opponent's one-yard line, and quarterback Stan Merkel drove over for the score...