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The Alabama Baptist is a weekly newspaper that was first published on February 4, 1843, initially an independent newspaper but supported by Baptist leaders in the state. It was purchased by the Alabama Baptist State Convention in 1919, and now has a circulation of 100,000. The newspaper is based in Birmingham, Alabama [25]
A few historians over the years have suggested that a paper called The Family Visitor was a precursor to The Alabama Baptist newspaper, but no written accounts have survived to support this claim. Alabama Baptist State Convention annuals from 1833 through 1863 make no reference to The Family Visitor being a denominational publication. [2]
The Alabama Colored Baptist State Convention, which changed its name in 1974 to the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention, was founded in 1868 in Montgomery and by the turn of the 21st century comprised over 1000 churches. In 1898, the New Era Progressive Baptist State Convention split from the ACBSC, and another split in 1920 spawned the ...
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East Mississippi State Baptist Convention; General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi, Inc. [29] Mid-South Churches Cooperative Conference (Baptist) State Convention [30] Mississippi General Missionary Baptist State Convention; New Educational State Convention of Mississippi; North Mississippi Baptist Education Convention [31]
Charles Octavius Boothe (13 June 1845 – 27 February 1924) was an African American Baptist preacher and educator. He also helped establish the Colored Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of Alabama. [1]
The school opened four years later in the Saint Phillips Street Baptist Church of Selma (which later became the First Baptist Church). [5] Charles L. Purce was the president of Selma University from 1886 to 1894. In 1881, the school was incorporated by an act of the legislature under the name of Alabama Baptist Normal and Theological School of ...
Alexander Travis (23 August 1790 – 2 December 1852) was a Baptist preacher and a prominent member of the Alabama Baptist State Convention. [1] His nephew William Barret Travis was Texas commander at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. [2] Travis was born on 23 August 1790 and grew up in Edgefield County, South Carolina, where his father was a ...