The issue had been whether the church’s Session, its board of lay leaders, should admit groups of black and white students who had come to worship on about a dozen occasions between March 1964 and March 1965. Although the city had no shortage of churches, it became necessary to launch the congregation because racial conflict had precipitated a split at 3,500-member Second Presbyterian. In March 1965 a new church was founded in Memphis, Tennessee.
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