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Kentucky Pastor Shares His Civil Rights Movement Experiences

SHARE LOUISVILLE, Ky. Born on August 17, 1934 and raised in Wheeler, Alabama, Reverend Charles Elliott Jr. of King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville has lived through a lot in his 86 years. “We’d go down there to get wood because we didn’t have no electric lights or running water. So we’d go in the woods there, and you’d see a Black man hanging. [A] white man didn’t go to jail for nothing he did to a Black person,” Elliott said. Growing up during the Jim Crow era, Elliott also remembered having to get off the sidewalk to let white people walk by.

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Louisville Rev Charles Elliott honors friend, Martin Luther King Jr , with annual rally

Louisville Rev. Charles Elliott honors friend, Martin Luther King Jr., with annual rally Kala Kachmar, Louisville Courier Journal © Kala Kachmar Community organizer Neal Robertson, left, speaks during a Martin Luther King Day rally organized by the Rev. Charles Elliott, center, pastor of Louisville s King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church. On the right is Anthony Oxendine, owner of Spring Valley Funeral Home, who plans to run for mayor in 2022. Elliott was friends with King. LOUISVILLE, Ky. The Rev. Charles Elliott Jr., a local pastor, civil rights leader and confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., recalled when former Alabama Gov. George Wallace tried to prevent two Black students from entering the University of Alabama in 1963.

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Papa John s founder says he was set up by company board amid racial bias claims

Papa John s founder says he was set up by company board amid racial bias claims
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