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Robert Seymour became the first pastor of Chapel Hill's Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in 1959 and stepped down from the pulpit in 1988. In the 1960s he fought for racial integration of his church and the town, and in 1963 he helped organize the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service and served as its first president.
Source: Chapelboro: Robert Seymour, Civil Rights Activist and Chapel Hill Pastor, Dies at 95
Also found in catalogs as Robert E. (Robert Edward) Seymour.
1925–2020 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 works about Robert E. Seymour are indexed here, as are 3 works by Seymour.
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Robert E. Seymour, a Baptist pastor in Chapel Hill associated with Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, looks back on segregation and race relations in the South from the pulpit. A clergyman's memoir covering church history in the town, Baptists in North Carolina and the segregation of African Americans. Published by Chapel Hill Press in 2011, 204 pages.
Robert E. Seymour's columns for the Chapel Hill News, gathered into a 192-page book by Chapel Hill Press in 2003. The short pieces offer anecdotes and reflections on Chapel Hill history, local manners and customs, and North Carolina life. Seymour (1925 to 2020) was the longtime pastor of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church.
Thirty seven linear feet of papers from Robert E. Seymour (1925-2020), approximately 14,700 items dated 1941 to 2017, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 04554. Seymour was a Baptist clergyman in North Carolina. The papers concern Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill along with congregations in Mars Hill and Warrenton. Race relations and community life in the state are also subjects.
The Rev. Robert Seymour and Ralph Paull at the Chapel Hill Senior Center in 1991. A single photograph in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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Six photographs of the Rev. Robert Seymour dated 1980, including portraits, one of him in vestments greeting members of his congregation, and one posed with an unidentified woman. Seymour was the longtime pastor of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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Picture: Robert E. Seymour, newspaper photograph, 1960. No known copyright restrictions. The Chapel Hill Weekly, 21 November 1960; Library of Congress
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