Biography
Born June 16, 1930, he grew up on a plantation as a sharecropper in the 1940s. In 1947 he moved from Mississippi on the urging of his family, who worried that he might be in danger following the deadly shooting of his brother, Clyde, by a police officer. He settled in southern California where he encountered the gospel, after his son, Spencer, convinced him to attend a local church.
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