{"id":1748,"date":"2013-05-03T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2019-01-03T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:56:20","slug":"mcneill-robert-blakely-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"McNEILL, ROBERT BLAKELY, 1915-1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presbyterian clergyman; advocate of improved race relations in the South.\u00a0 Born&#8211; May 21, 1915, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Walter Patterson and Mary McLeod McNeill. Married&#8211; Jeanne Lancaster, August 25, 1944. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Birmingham Southern College, 1936; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1942; M.A. University of Kentucky, 1944; graduate work, University of Alabama, University of North Carolina. Employed as correspondent, Linde Air Products, 1937-1939. Ordained a Presbyterian minister, 1942; Minister to students at the\u00a0University of Kentucky, 1942-44; at the University of Texas, Austin, 1944-45.\u00a0 Pastor\u00a0at Fairfield Highlands Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, 1945-47;\u00a0 Jacksonville Presbyterian, 1947-51; First Presbyterian, Columbus, Ga., 1951-59; Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, Charleston, W.V.\u00a0, 1968-75; taught at Wilkesboro Community College, NC, 1968-75.\u00a0 Focus of a nationally publicized controversy over race relations, 1957-59, resulting in his firing from the Columbus church. Died July 15, 1975.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens, Jessica.\u00a0 The Standoff: First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Georgia, Robert McNeill, and Racial Equality.\u00a0 MA thesis, Auburn University, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God Wills Us Free; the Ordeal of a Southern Minister. New York; Hill &amp; Wang, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Prophet, Speak Now. Richmond, Va.; John Knox, 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Presbyterian clergyman; advocate of improved race relations in the South.\u00a0 Born&#8211; May 21, 1915, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Walter Patterson and Mary McLeod McNeill. Married&#8211; Jeanne Lancaster, August 25, 1944. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Birmingham Southern College, 1936; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1942; M.A. University of Kentucky, 1944; graduate work, University of Alabama, University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9182,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/9182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}