Kyles, Samuel Billy
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- Kyles, Samuel B. (Samuel Billy)
- Kyles, Billy
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1934-09-26
Death Date
- 2016-04-26
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1959
- Affiliation End: 2014
- Organization: Monumental Baptist Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Birth Place
- Shelby (Miss.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination
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Sources
- found: Channel One news. 1994-01-14, Martin Luther King, 1994:caption (Rev. Samuel B. Kyles)
- found: OCLC, Nov. 23, 1996(hdg.: Kyles, Samuel Billy; usage: Samuel Billy Kyles)
- found: Under God : Religion and American politics, 1990:p. 228, etc. (Billy Kyles)
- found: Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles page on theHistoryMakers WWW site, viewed Oct. 5, 2011(b. Sep. 26, 1934)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed May 5, 2016(in obituary published Apr. 30: the Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles; b. Sept. 26, 1934, Shelby, Miss.; named for the prophet Samuel, but after his mother saw him baptizing neighborhood pets and memorializing dead birds, she began calling him Billy, after the evangelist Billy Sunday; moved with his family to Chicago when he was 6; settled in Memphis in 1959 and became the founding pastor of Monumental Baptist Church; retired in 2014; d. Tuesday [Apr. 26, 2016], Memphis, aged 81; among the last people to speak to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visiting him in his motel room to take him to dinner; when they walked out, Dr. King was shot)
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Change Notes
- 1999-11-23: new
- 2016-05-05: revised
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