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http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-06-11/fred-luter-to-lead-baptist-convention/55623616/1Friday, June 15, 2012
Pastor to become first black leader of Southern Baptists – USATODAY.com - Baptist pastor Fred Luter Jr. once preached the Gospel through an amplifier on street corners in this city's Lower 9th Ward. -Tuesday, he's set to become the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention— a group created more than a century ago to support slavery — at the group's annual meeting here. - The rise of Luter, 55, from street preacher to religious leader is more than a tale of personal fate. It's a historic moment in the denomination's 167-year history, a history tainted with racial segregation and human bondage, historians and convention leaders say.
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