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Will Davis Campbell (Amite County, Mississippi, July 18, 1924 – Nashville, Tennessee June 3, 2013) was a Baptist minister, lecturer, and activist. He was a Southern white supporter of African-American civil rights .
Jun 4, 2013 · The Rev. Will D. Campbell, a renegade preacher and author who joined the civil rights struggle in the 1950s, quit organized religion and fought injustice with nonviolent protests and a...
Jul 25, 2022 · ‘Bootleg preacher’ Will Campbell dies. Remembering Will Campbell: does anyone here NOT know Amazing Grace? What happened to the Baptists?
Jul 20, 2022 · The upturned page contained a one-column profile of self-styled bootleg preacher Will Campbell. I quickly scanned the article through to the final paragraph which nearly jumped off the page, ending with a quote from Campbell: “Jesus is Lord, goddamnit!”
Mar 1, 2017 · That same man, Will Campbell, was the personal pastor to people - terrorists, we’d call them today - whose violent mission was to make sure the South would never integrate.
Jun 17, 2013 · Will Davis Campbell, who died earlier this month at age 88, was one of the last surviving icons of the civil rights movement. Born on a cotton farm in southern Mississippi, Campbell served as an army medic in the South Pacific during World War II. He frequently referred to himself as a bootleg preacher with neither parish nor pulpit… .
Jun 8, 2013 · Will D. Campbell, a self-described “bootleg preacher” who became one of the most prominent white clergymen in the South to fight for racial equality during the civil rights movement, died...
