Word: skerritt
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Brother Skerritt just defied them...
...rule his flock like a benign autocrat. Indeed he and his officers are empowered to declare vacant any of the numerous posts in the church. But last week Pastor Powell was meeting open defiance-from the Friendly Society's president, a tall, blue-black West Indian named Samuel Skerritt. Six months ago, recalling that the Friendly Society books had not been audited for four years, Pastor Powell asked for a look at them. Samuel Skerritt seemed evasive. And when Pastor Powell kept on asking for those books, Brother Skerritt continued to seem evasive...
Last week Pastor Powell called a church meeting, ordered Brother Skerritt to attend. Declaring that the pastor was trying to usurp the prerogatives of the Friendly Society, Brother Skerritt boldly stayed away. The meeting took place, the church officers declared Brother Skerritt deposed, but still no one could lay hands on those books. Harlem street corners continued buzzing about what each side planned to do next, but all "Reverent"' Powell would say was: "We are only having a family fight, which happens in all families, and we are trying to settle the fight without telling the world about...