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Rev. William Lawson a long-time civil rights advocate and founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, has died, according to an obituary posted on the church’s website. He was 95.
H. Dale Jackson (1930–2003) - Pastor and ethicist; William Bullein Johnson (1782–1862) - First president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1845 to 1851; B.R. Lakin (1901–1984) - Preacher and evangelist; Homer G Lindsey (1927–2000) - Preacher at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, FL
Starting with their first minister Rev. William Richardson 1767, to today’s Senior Pastor Walt McCanless, Providence Presbyterian Church has had its fair share of servant leaders. Many worked to grow our congregation from one generation to the next— through times of want and times of wealth.
Rev. Edward Malloy [41] Former President of the University of Notre Dame. Rev. Julius Nieuwland, [42] [43] Chemist, known for research that led to the invention of neoprene, and botanist who founded the American Midland Naturalist. Fr. John Augustine Zahm, [44] Scientist and writer who defended certain aspects of evolutionary theory as true.
The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died.
Judith Hird (b. 1946) - first woman to become a Lutheran pastor. William A. Passavant - Lutheran minister noted for bringing the Lutheran Deaconess movement to the United States. Roland Weisselberg (1933-2006) - Critic of the former East Germany who later committed Self-immolation as a protest against the spread of Islam .
Robert Simon Laws was born ca. 1837 on Wood Farm Plantation in Middlesex County, Virginia as an enslaved person. [11] At some point, Robert was sold to Richard H. Lynch of Washington County, Virginia who published a $100 reward in 1863 for the return of a runaway slave, 24-year-old Robert Laws, who was described as "5 feet 7 inches high and weighs about 175 pounds" and likely headed to ...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his ...
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