By ERIN TOCKNELL — Sam’s sermons were concise, always about 10 minutes long, and in them he usually tied the morning’s scripture to a call for action against injustice. He focused on segregation. Jim Crow was just beginning to loose its hold on Nashville, but not without a fight. In 1958, when Sam began preaching at Calvary, Nashville’s public schools had just ended their first year as an integrated system…
By ANDREW BARBER (12th Grade) – It didn’t quite go as planned. There were no screaming and adoring fans; there were no intelligent lights bouncing around the walls and ceiling of the room; there was no grand introduction with a fifteen foot inferno of red hot flames around the back entrance of the stage. Instead, the eight French-fry lights, each burning at a temperature of around 800 degrees Fahrenheit…
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