Article: NAT'L BAPTIST CONVENTION: Baptist Leader Urges Members To Sit Out

A. Asadullah Samad
Los Angeles Sentinel
10-11-1995
NAT'L BAPTIST CONVENTION: Baptist Leader Urges Members To Sit Out. Washington March

The Rev. Jesse Jackson has apologized for wrongly saying that black Baptist leaders supported a controversial march for black men in Washington.

The Rev. Henry J. Lyons, president of the 7.8 million-member National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., denounced Oct. 16's planned march of 1 million men and accused Jackson of trying to mislead people about Lyons' intentions.

"I'm not getting any pressure from anyone else in the United States," Lyons said. "What is he? Is he the broker for blacks in this country? I doubt that seriously. He's not the broker for my ...

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