Date of Award
Summer 2008
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Theology
First Advisor
Carey, Patrick W.
Second Advisor
Zemler-Cizewski, Wanda
Third Advisor
Massingale, Bryan
Abstract
Samuel De Witt Proctor (1921-1997) accomplished many things in his life. He was an educator, administrator, ordained Baptist pastor, and author. He was educated at Virginia State University and Virginia Union University, the University of Pennsylvania, Crozer Theological Seminary, Yale University, and Boston University School of Theology. He served in different government capacities during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, including stints as an associate director of the Peace Corps and Office of Economic Opportunity. His academic career included presidential posts at Virginia Union University and North Carolina A and T State University, teaching duties at Rutgers University, and lectures at various colleges and seminaries following his retirement. He also served churches in Providence, Rhode Island and Harlem, New York (successor to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. at the prominent Abyssinian Baptist Church). Proctor's public ministry spanned six decades...