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MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
8-31-2018
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 646. Material, chiefly correspondence, of Bowling Green, Kentucky pastor Richard W. Bridges, who served as Board of Directors’ Chairman for the Western Recorder, the statewide newspaper of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. During Bridges’ Chairmanship, the editor, Jack Sanford, died. Bridges and the Board’s executive committee assumed the paper’s management and editorial responsibilities. This collection provides insights into the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s.
Disciplines
Religion | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Bridges, Richard Wilson, 1943-2015 (MSS 646)" (2018). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4472.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4472
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu