Plans Made for 56th Annual National Baptist Convention at Conference at Metropolitan Baptist Church
- Title of event
- Plans Made for 56th Annual National Baptist Convention at Conference at Metropolitan Baptist Church
- Type of event
- Meeting
- Address of event
- Plans Made for 56th Annual National Baptist Convention at Conference at Metropolitan Baptist Church Happened Entirely at 151, W 128th St
- Report on event
- Plans Made for 56th Annual National Baptist Convention at Conference at Metropolitan Baptist Church Sole event referenced by Confab Opens September 3
- Start date / time
- June 17, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Any Time)
- Description
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"Dr Harten, at a conference Monday at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, proposed that invitations should be sent to Postmaster General James A. Farley, Governor Lehman, Mayor La Guardia, and John D. Rockefeller Jr... The proposal to exchange ministers with the leading white churches was made by Dr W. B. M. Scott, while the Rev. C. L. Franklin, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church of Tarrytown and chairman of the financial committee for the national convention, suggested the motorcade"