Today in Montgomery, Alabama an “old negro woman” enters one of city’s “principle churches,” walks down the church aisle, and sits down in a seat of her choice. The woman, after all, is now free. Or so she might think. A white church member quickly intercedes, “politely” telling her that the church has “prepared another…
Isaac Taylor Tichenor, Baptist minister, educator and orator, is arguably the most influential Baptist minister in Alabama. Prior to the war, and following a series of other pastorates in the South, Tichenor moved to Alabama to pastor the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, already emerging as a leading congregation in the South. He also took…
Today Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Thomas Hill Watts, a prominent Baptist layman in the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama, to the position of attorney general in his cabinet. Unlike the United States, the Confederate States of America never establishes a Supreme Court. In the absence of such a national judicial body, the attorney…