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Interviewee	Dawson, Joseph Martin
Interviewer	Charlton, Thomas Lee Spain, Rufus B. Nowlin, Linda Kay
Title	Oral memoirs of Joseph Martin Dawson
Interview details	Interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton, Rufus B. Spain, and Kay Nowlin on 8 occasions from 18 January 1971 to 7 January 1972. Locations of the interviews were Corsicana and Waco, Texas.
Number of interviews	8
Interview Date(s)	1972
Resource Type	Interview
Genre	Oral Histories
Description, transcript	305 pages; index
Description, sound recordings	analog audio tape; digital audio file; 8.75 hr.
Collection	Religion and Culture
Summary	J. M. Dawson was pastor, First Baptist Church, Waco, and first executive director, Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (BJCPA); youth on tenant farms; call to ministry; entry in Baylor Academy, 1898; pastorate, Albany, Texas, 1901-02; interest in early Texas governors; 1928 Democratic party convention; Ku Klux Klan and lynchings; comments on racial equality; organization of the Texas Institute of Letters; reflections on education in Texas; early denominations in state; pastorate, Ellis County, Texas; ordination; Texas Baptist history; recollections of George W. Truett; Seventy-five Million Campaign; effects of Great Depression on Texas Baptists; founding of Christian Life Commission, Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT); recollections of William Cowper Brann; Baptist formation of schools and human-need institutions; decline of church influence on public education; structure of BGCT; religion as a social institution; Southern Baptist misinterpretations of the Social Gospel; creation of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS), personal belief on origin of the Bible; role in BGCT investigation of evolutionary teaching at Baylor; possibility of evolution controversy re-arising; recollections of William Jennings Bryan; significance of Baptists in Texas society; formation of Americans United for Separation of Church and State; BJCPA lawsuits for religious freedom; founding of Hillcrest Baptist Hospital, Waco; race relations in BGCT; Baptist participation in ecumenical movement; chairman of committee on religious liberty during founding of United Nations; growth of Southern Baptist denomination; personal concern for separation of church and state; personal antimilitarist views; discussion of significant court cases; Baptist opposition to school-prayer cases; publications on religious liberty; government aid to parochial schools and taxation of churches; J. M. Dawson Center for Church-State Studies; recollections of Baylor in 1898; recollections of A. J. Armstrong; gathering of Browning collection; prominent lecturers at Baylor; travel; funding conflict between Armstrong and Pat Neff; recollections of J. Frank Norris as Baylor student; Norris's conflict with Truett and purchase of the Baptist Standard (BS); editorship of BS; Norris's attacks on Baylor, exclusion from BGCT, personal attacks on Dawson, and legal trials; public reaction to Norris; Norris's personality traits.
Subject--Library of Congress	Church and state--Baptists Church and social problems--Baptists Church controversies--Baptists--History--20th Century Baptist General Convention of Texas--History Christian Life Commission (Texas)--History Baptists--Texas--History--20th century Race relations--Religious aspects--Baptists Texas--Church history Norris, J. Frank (John Frank), 1877-1952
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

Title	Oral Memoirs of Joseph Martin Dawson -- Front Matter
Resource Type	Interview
Genre	Oral Histories
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

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