翻訳と辞書 |
John Cross, Jr. : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Cross, Jr. John H. Cross, Jr. (January 27, 1925 – November 15, 2007) was an American pastor and Civil Rights activist. He was best known as the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist congregation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of church's racially motivated bombing in 1963. The bombing, which ripped through the church and killed four young girls, became a rallying cry for the Civil Rights Movement and propelled the problems of racial segregation in The South into the national spotlight.〔 Cross spent much of the rest of his life working for racial reconciliation in the South.〔 ==Early life== John Cross Jr. was born on January 27, 1925, in Haynes, Arkansas.〔 His parents were Margie Ann and John H. Cross Sr.〔 He became interested in the ministry very early in life when he gave his first trial sermon as a teenager.〔 Cross joined the U.S. Army in 1944 as an assistant regimental chaplain soon after graduating from high school.〔 Cross left the army following World War II. Cross enrolled at Virginia Union University, a historically African American university in Richmond, Virginia, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1950.〔 He later also received a master's degree in divinity from Virginia Union University in 1959.〔 Cross met his wife, Julia Ball, who was also a student at Virginia Union University.〔 The couple married on September 3, 1949.〔 Julia Cross died in 2003.〔
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Cross, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|