Harry Golden: Bestselling author, raconteur, and advocate for civil rights with his irreverent newspaper, The Carolina Israelite

The Rev. Billy Graham

Billy Graham was already a renowned evangelist when he met Golden in the 1950s. They shared a warm correspondence and collaborated on behind-the-scenes efforts to free organizer Boyd E. Payton of the Textile Workers Union of America who was charged in an alleged plot to dynamite a power station and mill buildings during a 1958 strike by workers of the Harriet & Henderson Cotton Mills. Golden also arranged for Graham to preach at Belmont Abbey in Belmont, NC, in 1963, reportedly marking the first time that the Baptist minister had been invited to speak from the pulpit of a Roman Catholic institution.
 

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