{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2002-11-22-pt1-PgE2134-3", "2002-11-22", 107, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO REVEREND LAVAUGHN VENCHAEL BOOTH", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "TRIBUTETO", "E2134", "E2135", "[{\"name\": \"Rob Portman\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "148 Cong. Rec. E2134", "Congressional Record, Volume 148 Issue 152 (Friday, November 22, 2002)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 152 (Friday, November 22, 2002)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Pages E2134-E2135]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n              TRIBUTE TO REVEREND LAVAUGHN VENCHAEL BOOTH\n\n                                 ______\n\n                            HON. ROB PORTMAN\n\n                                of ohio\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Friday, November 22, 2002\n\n  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and\naccomplishments of Reverend Lavaughn Venchael Booth, a distinguished\nfriend and champion of faith and justice from Cincinnati, who passed\naway on November 17.\n  Born on January 7, 1919 in Covington County, Mississippi, Reverend\nBooth received a bachelor's degree in American history from Alcorn A&M\nCollege; a bachelor's degree in divinity from Howard University; and a\nmaster's degree in church history from the University of Chicago\nDivinity School. He began his ministry with First Baptist Church of\nWarrenton, Virginia and continued his ministry with First Baptist\nChurch of Gary, Indiana. He pastored Zion Baptist Church in the\nAvondale area of Cincinnati for 32 years before founding the Olivet\nBaptist Church in Silverton. Last year, he came out of retirement to\npastor the Church upon the Rock in Anderson, Indiana.\n  In 1961, Reverend Booth founded the Progressive National Baptist\nConvention (PNBC). The PNBC became the household of Rev. Dr. Martin\nLuther King Jr. and the civil rights movement among African-American\nBaptists. As Dr. Lewis V. Baldwin noted, ``King, while siding with\nprogressives, had no active role with the organization of the PNBC.''\nDr. King at his last meeting with the PNBC in 1967 in Cincinnati\nemphasized according to convention minutes ``that he is a member of the\nPNBC. He has come to speak not as a civil rights leader, but as a\nminister of the gospel.'' The PNBC split from the National Baptist\nConvention and formed a denomination that played an active role in the\ncivil rights movement by joining with the Southern Christian Leadership\nConference and provided Dr. King with a national platform. Reverend\nBooth served as its president from 1971-1974. Progressives today have\n2.5 million members in 1,800 churches nationwide.\n  But Reverend Booth's focus was his local ministry, and he said, ``We\nshould have concern for the physical, as well as the spiritual well-\nbeing of people.'' He initiated economic development projects, secured\nthe credit to build hundreds of low-income housing units and a church-\nrun nursing home, and later established the region's first black-owned\nbank. Described as a visionary who dedicated his life to the Lord, he\nwas driven to do for others, trying to make the world and his community\na better place to live.\n  Reverend Booth's civil and community activities are legendary. He was\nthe first African-American member of the University of Cincinnati Board\nof Trustees. He was a founding member of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\nCenter for Nonviolent Social Change, served on the board of the\nCincinnati City Gospel Mission and as vice president of the Gospel\nWorld Alliance. He helped to establish the Marva Collins Preparatory\nSchool in Cincinnati; the Cincinnati Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, a\nservice that offered prayers for newly-elected public servants; and the\nNational Prayer League.\n  Reverend Booth is survived by his sons, Paul Booth of Cincinnati, who\nis a member of\n\n[[Page E2135]]\n\nthe Cincinnati City Council; Lavaughn Booth Jr. of Chicago; and Rev.\nDr. William Booth of Hampton, Virginia; and daughters Anna-Marie Booth\nof San Francisco, and Dr. Georgia Leeper of Memphis. He is also\nsurvived by 14 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. We are blessed\nby his life and having known him.016\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2002-11-22-pt1-PgE2134-3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 8.072620024904609, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}