[CIVIL RIGHTS] [CALIFORNIA] [Rev. Edward Stovall]

Testimonial Banquet - Rev. Edward Stovall, Pastor, Progressive Baptist Church. Shattuck Hotel - University Room...Saturday Evening, October 14, 1961

[Berkeley: Tilghman Press, 1961]. Quarto ( 27cm). Pictorial silver-foil card wrappers;12pp; illus. Mild corner-creasing, trace of wear to wrappers; else Near Fine.

Program and souvenir book for a tribute banquet to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Edward Stovall's pastorate of the Progressive Baptist Church in Berkeley, California. Includes a list of speakers (including Berkeley mayor Claude B. Hutchinson and prominent Bay Area civil rights activist Dr. Roy Nichols); testimonials from such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr., Wilmont Sweeney, and Jeffery Cohelan; and a 2-pp biography highlighting Rev. Stovall's accomplishments in the pastoral, civic, and civil rights fields. Earlier that year Stovall, meeting with Martin Luther King in Oakland, co-founded and was named vice-president of the Western Christian Leadership Council, formed to provide support for King's SCLC and the ongoing school integration and voter registration drives in the South. Not separately catalogued in WorldCat.

Price: $150.00

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