Word: preachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contrary to folklore, slaves hated slavery so passionately that thousands joined bloody revolts. The biggest was led in 1831 by Nat Turner, a Virginia slave preacher, whose rebels killed 60 whites before he was captured and hanged. Also contrary to folklore, the U.S. had 488,000 free Negroes by 1860, almost half of them in the South...
Also, J. Lawrence Burkholder, professor of Church; Gordon D. Kaufman, professor of Theology; Richard R. Nlebubr '47, professor of Theology; Frederick C. Packard '20. professor of Public Speaking; and Charles P. Price '41, University Preacher...
...Nativity. "And we killed the boy! Killed the boy! Who could have saved us all. He was one of them, Billy; I am absolutely convinced He was one of them." During a service at the new Church of Christ, Astronaut, which Brown attends along the way, the preacher exhorts his flock to behave better or else: "When we get there, to the Kingdom Come Motel, there will be banners reading NO EARTHMEN NEED APPLY...
...putting their plans to work. Bull Connor, who had lost the election but refused to relinquish power, sent his spies into the Negro community to seek information. Fearing that their phones were tapped, King and his friends worked up a code. He became "J.F.K.," Ralph Abernathy "Dean Rusk," Birmingham Preacher Fred Shuttlesworth "Bull," and Negro Businessman John Drew "Pope John." Demonstrators were called "baptismal candidates," and the whole operation was labeled "Project C"-for "Confrontation...
...folks a wonderful tour when they come for the barbecue on Friday." Johnson hugged her, whispered something. "Whatever you say, honey," said Lady Bird, and the tour was on. There was a framed letter from one of Johnson's great-grandfathers to Sam Houston: "He was a Baptist preacher, and he was writing to renew a note at 8% interest and also to complain that his congregation was behind on pledges," and a picture of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Lyndon quipped: "He's Lady Bird's boy friend...