Baptists -- Kentucky.

Abstract Kazee was born August 29, 1900 in the quite rural Burton Fork area of Magoffin County, Kentucky. Baptist Christianity, home made music, and classical commercial recordings were important influences in Kazee’s upbringing. He was singing and playing banjo by age 5 and was ordained to preach at age 17. After finishing high school at Magoffin Baptist Institute, he went on to Georgetown College to major in English, Greek, and Latin, and study voice. There he came to a stronger appreciation of...

Abstract Oneida Baptist Institute in Clay County, Kentucky was founded by James Anderson Burns, a participant in the deadly feuding activity that plagued Clay County in the early 1900s. In his 1928 autobiography, The Crucible, Burns tells of how his participation ended when he was left for dead after a gun battle. He escaped to a mountain-top where he stayed for three days and underwent a transformation, finding that his “…urge for vengeance was gone.” ...

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This bound volume of typescript notes gleaned from published sources was compiled by Faybert Martin (and Hampton King?) during the 1930s. The title on the book spine is "The Baptist Church and the Negro." Also based on spine imprinting, this work is associated with the YMCA Graduate School in Nashville, Tennessee. Inside the front cover is a manuscript note "From Dr. W. D. Weatherford's library." The volume compiles references to African American Baptists during the period 1790 - 1854.