Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WILLIAMS explores the 26-year-old minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dexter was King's first pastorate, and at the time, he said with pride that it "was sort of a silk-stocking church catering only to a certain class." King's life-long friend, the late Louis Lomax, put it more bluntly. As Williams quotes him, "King well knew before he assumed the pastorate... that nonprofessional and uneducated Negroes were not welcome at the Dexter Avenue altar...
...some degree, accepted the assumptions in which white middle class behavior is grounded. In effect, this was the program outlined by Booker T. Washington in his Atlanta Compromise speech of 1895, a miasma which had been inured in the black middle class fifty years before King assumed the Dexter pastorate...
...King's presence in Montgomery had been as carefully plotted as the presence of, say, the Kennedys in the U. S. Senate. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was the place where the coming big men of the black Baptist organization served; it was a step on the escalator... Given King's up-bringing and education, and his father's plans for him, King would very probably have refused to pastor a lesser church." Northern-educated and ambitious, King had gone to Montgomery with a sense of secure possession of a successful future within the structure of the Baptist church and along...
Died. Dr. Donald Dexter Van Slyke. 88, clinical chemist; of cancer; in Garden City. N.Y. A major contributor to the study of amino-acid chemistry and kidney function. Van Slyke applied innovative analytical methods to both clinical and investigative medicine. He was known primarily for his work leading to the detection of acidosis (a condition often leading to diabetic coma) and his studies of kidney disease...
...wreath on Dexter Gate...