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]
References
- ^ a b c "Rev. L. Venchael Booth | African American Resources | Cincinnati History Library and Archives". Library.cincymuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ a b "The Rev. L.V. Booth, 83, Baptist Leader". The New York Times. 25 November 2002 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Gilbreath, Edward (March 11, 2002). "The Forgotten Founder". ChristianityToday.com.
- ^ C. Douglas Weaver, In Search of the New Testament Church: The Baptist Story, Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 208
- ^ "Collins v. Marva Collins Preparatory School, Case No. 1:05cv614 | Casetext Search + Citator".
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- 1919 births
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- People from Collins, Mississippi
- University of Cincinnati trustees
- African-American Baptist ministers
- Alcorn State University alumni
- Interdenominational Theological Center alumni
- Howard University alumni
- Baptists from Mississippi
- 20th-century African-American people
- 20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States