Background
Campbell, Will Davis was born on July 18, 1924 in Mississippi, United States. Son of Lee Webb Campbell and Hancie Bea Parker.
(No one in Claughton County ever understood why Doops Momb...)
No one in Claughton County ever understood why Doops Momber refused to be baptized: his people were all good Baptists. And no one in Cummings, Mississippi, knew that Kingston Smylie’s daddy was really his granddaddy and that Kingston wasn’t really white. And at Camp Polk, no one knew anything at all about Fordache Arceneau because he spoke only Cajun. They met in basic training. Green kids who’d always felt themselves to be outsiders, they formed a community of three. They called it the neighborhood. After seeing action together at Guadalcanal, the three friends went back to the lives they’d each known, but they went on meeting regularly, keeping up the neighborhood. Their lives were untroubled, until the day Fordache found himself accused of murder, on trial for his life. And in a small Southern courtroom in the autumn of 1952, the neighborhood — bound by love and based on understanding — faced its ultimate test. The Glad River is a deeply affecting novel. Grounded in a particular place and time, its themes are, nonetheless, universal. A novel that probes the limits of religion and the state, it is also the work of a master storyteller and civil rights activist whose works are considered a treasure of modern Southern literature. *Contains strong language, may not be suitable for young readers.
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( Will CampbellÆs award-winning book shares two interrela...)
Will CampbellÆs award-winning book shares two interrelated stories. One is of his youth in rural Mississippi and his devotion to his brother whose life ended in seeming tragedy. The other tells of his ordination at age 17 and gradual realization that civil rightsùfor blacks, for women, for gays ùwas an essential part of a ministry that has not yet ended.
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Campbell, Will Davis was born on July 18, 1924 in Mississippi, United States. Son of Lee Webb Campbell and Hancie Bea Parker.
Student, Louisiana College, Pineville, 1942. AB, Wake Forest University, 1948. HHD (honorary), Wake Forest University, 1984.
Student, Tulane University, 1949. Bachelor of Divinity, Yale University, 1952. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1993.
HHD (honorary), Mercer University, 1996. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Southern Mississippi, 1999.
(No one in Claughton County ever understood why Doops Momb...)
( Will CampbellÆs award-winning book shares two interrela...)
(The story of racial integration at Mercer University)
(Book by Campbell, Will D.)
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Married Brenda Rita Fisher, 1946. Children: Penny Elizabeth, Bonnie Ruth, Lee Webb World War II.