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Finlator, William Wallace, 1913-2006

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Biography:

William Wallace Finlator was born in 1913 in Louisburg, North Carolina. He attended nearby Wake Forest and went on to graduate from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Finlator began preaching at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1956, and was well known for his progressive sermons, which called for an end to racial injustice and segregation in the South. In 1961, he endorsed a petition requesting executive clemency from President Kennedy for imprisoned civil rights activist, Carl Braden. Finlator died on July 3, 2006 at the age of 93.

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Finlator, William Wallace, 1913-2006

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Oral history interview with William W. Finlator, April 19, 1985

Creator:: Finlator, William Wallace, 1913-
Date of Original:: 1985-04-19
Collection:: Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a signed petition calling for an executive pardon for Carl Braden, Atlanta, Georgia, 1961

Creator:: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Date of Original:: 1961
Collection:: Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History