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Article: The quiet revolutionary: Amelia Morton Bishop: following is the story of a simple Texas housewife, mother, sometime denominational worker (especially in the Woman's Missionary Union-WMU), church volunteer, school teacher, university professor, and free-lance writer. (1) That woman, Amelia Morton Bishop, now lives in Austin, Texas. To our way of thinking, she is a quiet revolutionary.(Biography)
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- January 1, 2006
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The Early Years: 1920-1950
On New Year's Eve of 2004, Amelia Bishop ("Millie") celebrated her eighty-fourth birthday. (2) She was born on December 31, 1920, in Dallas, Texas, the only child of middle-aged parents, Walter and Alice Morton. In 1926, her father relocated to El Paso where she lived until her 1942 graduation with a degree in journalism from what is now the University of Texas at El Paso.
Millie grew up in what she describes as a Christian home, but her conversion experience occurred in an unlikely place--geography class. Her teacher pointed out Palestine on a map and indicated that this was the place where Jesus had been born and lived. As an ...