Word: olivet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor from Nashville sounded the brass for the election of a "consecrated, learned, experienced black minister" as president of the Alliance, to "answer the challenge from barbaric paganism." He nominated Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, learned black pastor of one of the world's largest churches, Chicago's Olivet Baptist (membership: some 10,000). The Alliance then elected Dr. Rushbrooke its president. There was no more nonsense about color, most delegates feeling that Atlanta, which quietly shelved some of its racial laws during the congress, had kept tar-baby trouble at a minimum...
School of History Olivet College Olivet, Mich...
Many U. S. newspapers get local businessmen to sponsor church advertising, sometimes using art work and canned sermonets or thoughts-for-the-week. As chairman of trustees of Atlantic City's Olivet Presbyterian Church, it occurred to Adman Peifer last year that such advertising is dull indeed. He asked local clergymen to try their hands at ad-writing, soon, concluded that "their stuff just didn't have the right slant. They couldn't write a good ad." Last January Adman Peifer, 51 and hardworking, began writing institutional ads for the churches of Atlantic City, turning out swift...
...Illinois and Robert R. Church of Memphis, Tenn., oldtimers who for years have been accustomed to make a four-year living from the profits of running each Republican campaign. Republican National Chairman John Hamilton, avoiding the worst pitfalls, chose Rev. Mr. Lacey Kirk Williams, parson of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago and president of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Co.. to head the Republican Negro drive in the West. Unlike most of the other important Negroes in the 1936 campaign, who have more white blood in them than black. Republican Williams is an old-fashioned chocolate color...
...Olivet, Mich...