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Interviewee	Patterson, Thomas Armour
Interviewer	Charlton, Thomas Lee
Title	Oral memoirs of Thomas Armour Patterson
Interview details	interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton on 5 occasions from 18 August 1971 to 8 November 1976. Locations of the interviews were Waco and Dallas, Texas.
Number of interviews	5
Interview Date(s)	1971; 1976
Item type	Transcript
Genre	Oral histories
Description, transcript	386 pages; index
Description, sound recordings	analog tape; 11.00 hr.
Project	Texas Baptist Project
Summary	T. A. Patterson was the executive secretary, Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT); childhood on Texas farms; family history; education, Eastland [Texas] High School and Hardin-Simmons University (HSU); master's, The University of Texas at Austin; call to ministry; teaching, Sylvester [Texas] High School; education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS); SWBTS faculty; J. Frank Norris: fundamentalism controversy; marriage; wife's seminary education; doctoral dissertation on J. R. Graves; pastorates, Dixie and McComb Baptist churches, Whitesboro, Texas; growth of Dixie church; cooperation of Baptist and Methodist churches; pastorates: First Baptist Church (FBC), Roscoe, Texas; FBC, Hollis, Oklahoma; FBC, Colorado City, Texas; Evans Avenue Baptist Church, Fort Worth; and East Grand Baptist Church, Dallas; construction of new East Grand church; call to FBC, Beaumont, Texas; FBC Beaumont budget and growth; establishment of Southeast Texas Baptist Hospital, Beaumont; student work, Lamar University; missions interest; trustee, Mary Hardin-Baylor College and HSU; service, Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC); chairmanship, Program Coordinating Committee, BGCT, for Booz, Allen, Hamilton report; consolidation of BGCT commissions; status of Christian Life Commission; election, BGCT executive secretary; relationship with E. S. James; relationship of executive secretary with commissions; budgetary authority; BGCT merger with Mexican Baptist Convention of Texas; creation of Rio Grande River Ministry; Texas sponsorship of Orient New Life Movement; work of BGCT public relations department; separation of church and state and release of BGCT institutions; racial integration of BGCT institutions and churches; Baptist involvement in social issues; relationship of BGCT and SBC; discontinuation of use of SBC Sunday School Board materials; selection of James H. Landes as successor as executive secretary; executive vice presidency, World Evangelism Foundation; growing strength and urbanization of Baptists; Baptist contribution to American life; strength of Texas Baptists; independence of Baptist Standard (BS); physical separation of BGCT agency offices; writing columns for BS; selection of John J. Hurt, Jr., as BS editor; effect of Carden report.
Subject--Library of Congress	Baptist General Convention of Texas--History Baptists--Texas--History--20th Century Baptists--Race relations--History--20th century Church and social problems--Baptists Church and state--Baptists Church controversies--Baptists--History--20th Century Conservatism--Religious aspects--Southern Baptist Convention--History--20th century
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX
Deposit Date	1978
Genre source	local
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

Interviewee	Patterson, Thomas Armour
Interviewer	Charlton, Thomas Lee
Title	Oral Memoirs of Thomas Armour Patterson--Transcripts
Interview details	interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton on 5 occasions from 18 August 1971 to 8 November 1976. Locations of the interviews were Waco and Dallas, Texas.
Number of interviews	5
Interview Date(s)	1971; 1976
Item type	Transcript
Genre	Oral histories
Description, transcript	386 pages; index
Description, sound recordings	analog tape; 11.00 hr.
Project	Texas Baptist Project
Summary	T. A. Patterson was the executive secretary, Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT); childhood on Texas farms; family history; education, Eastland [Texas] High School and Hardin-Simmons University (HSU); master's, The University of Texas at Austin; call to ministry; teaching, Sylvester [Texas] High School; education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS); SWBTS faculty; J. Frank Norris: fundamentalism controversy; marriage; wife's seminary education; doctoral dissertation on J. R. Graves; pastorates, Dixie and McComb Baptist churches, Whitesboro, Texas; growth of Dixie church; cooperation of Baptist and Methodist churches; pastorates: First Baptist Church (FBC), Roscoe, Texas; FBC, Hollis, Oklahoma; FBC, Colorado City, Texas; Evans Avenue Baptist Church, Fort Worth; and East Grand Baptist Church, Dallas; construction of new East Grand church; call to FBC, Beaumont, Texas; FBC Beaumont budget and growth; establishment of Southeast Texas Baptist Hospital, Beaumont; student work, Lamar University; missions interest; trustee, Mary Hardin-Baylor College and HSU; service, Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC); chairmanship, Program Coordinating Committee, BGCT, for Booz, Allen, Hamilton report; consolidation of BGCT commissions; status of Christian Life Commission; election, BGCT executive secretary; relationship with E. S. James; relationship of executive secretary with commissions; budgetary authority; BGCT merger with Mexican Baptist Convention of Texas; creation of Rio Grande River Ministry; Texas sponsorship of Orient New Life Movement; work of BGCT public relations department; separation of church and state and release of BGCT institutions; racial integration of BGCT institutions and churches; Baptist involvement in social issues; relationship of BGCT and SBC; discontinuation of use of SBC Sunday School Board materials; selection of James H. Landes as successor as executive secretary; executive vice presidency, World Evangelism Foundation; growing strength and urbanization of Baptists; Baptist contribution to American life; strength of Texas Baptists; independence of Baptist Standard (BS); physical separation of BGCT agency offices; writing columns for BS; selection of John J. Hurt, Jr., as BS editor; effect of Carden report.
Subject--Library of Congress	Baptist General Convention of Texas--History Baptists--Texas--History--20th Century Baptists--Race relations--History--20th century Church and social problems--Baptists Church and state--Baptists Church controversies--Baptists--History--20th Century Conservatism--Religious aspects--Southern Baptist Convention--History--20th century
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX
Deposit Date	1978
Genre source	local
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

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