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L. Venchael Booth
American Baptist leader From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lavaughan Venchael Booth (January 7, 1919 – November 16, 2002) was a Baptist pastor and leader in the United States, the founder and first President of the Progressive National Baptist Convention.
Biography
Booth was born in Collins, Mississippi.[1][2][3] He graduated from Hopewell High School in Hopewell, Covington County, Mississippi in 1936 and has a bachelor's degree from Alcorn A&M (1940). He also studied at Gammon Theological Seminary and graduated from Howard University's School of Religion in 1943 with honors and as president of his class.[1]
He was the pastor of Cincinnati's Zion Baptist Church for three decades and was the first African American trustee of the University of Cincinnati.[2]
He founded the Progressive National Baptist Convention in 1961 and was elected first President of the Convention.[4] He also established the Marva Collins Preparatory School in 1990.[1] A lawsuit by Marva Collins alleges the K-8 school in Cincinnati infringes on her trademark teaching method and name.[5]
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