The Southern Baptist Convention & Civil Rights, 1954–1995

by David Roach

2021 · Wipf and Stock Publishers

According to conventional wisdom, theological liberals led the Southern Baptist Convention to reject segregation and racism in the twentieth century. That's only half the story. Liberals criticized segregation before mainstream Southern Baptists. They created racially integrated ministry opportunities. They pressed the Southern Baptist Convention to reject segregation. Yet historians have discounted the role of conservative theology in the convention's shift away from racial segregation and prejudice. This book chronicles how conservative theology proved remarkably compatible with efforts toward racial justice in America's largest Protestant denomination between 1954 and 1995. At times conservative theology was even a catalyst for rejecting racial prejudice. Efforts to eradicate racism and segregation were, in fact, least successful when they appealed to the social gospel or appeared to draw from liberal theology.

The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts

by David Webster Hoyt

1982 · Genealogical Publishing Com

Includes some families from Newbury, Haverhill, Ispwich, and Hampton.

Hot Jazz

by David Griffiths

1998 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Griffith's work results from many interviews with side-men in big bands of the early 1930's and early 40's, including Curtis Jones, Bill Dillard and Cliff Olson. Here the author brings a fresh perspective to the rich legacy they left behind them.