Hard trials, great tribulations
Subtitle: a Black preacher's pilgrimage from poverty and segregation to the 21st century
By: James V. Lyles ; [foreword by Cornish R. Rogers ; preface by Jean Caffey Lyles]
Publisher: XLIBIRIS
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781499032451
Subjects: Biography; Alumni and alumnae; History; Methodist Church; Clergy; College integration; Église méthodiste; Biographies; Clergé; Déségrégation dans les universités; Histoire; Universities and colleges; Perkins School of Theology
Notes: "The Rev. James V. Lyles and four fellow students [James Arthur Hawkins, John Wesley Elliott, Negail Rudolph Riley, and A. Cecil Williams] in Perkins School of Theology made history in 1955 as the first African Americans to graduate from SMU."