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Mabry Methodist Movement Sparks Racial Sermon Clash
A letter laments a First Methodist Church Clarksdale sermon calling segregation a sin while quoting Bishop Franklin and Mabry’s Mississippi stance. The writer mocks church leaders, warns of indoctrination, and rails against racial prejudice in church education amid 1950s tensions.
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First Methodist Church
Clarksdale
Marvin Franklin
General Conference of the Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Brother
Franklin
Mabry Methodist
Mississippi
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