{"id":3432,"date":"2013-03-17T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2013-04-04T01:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:58:46","slug":"civil-war-ii-manassas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2013\/03\/17\/civil-war-ii-manassas\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War II &#8212; Manassas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3435\" title=\"BobJonesSr\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/69.89.31.52\/~drslewis\/camille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BobJonesSr.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BobJonesSr.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BobJonesSr-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next Sunday after Graham&#8217;s statement, on Easter Morning, one of those Southern rebels from Billy Graham\u2019s past kicked back. Bob Jones Sr.\u2014founder of the infamous Bob Jones University, former adviser to Graham in his youth, and, in a sense, Graham\u2019s own Scot-Irish meddling \u201cuncle\u201d in the faith\u2014went to the microphone at his radio station and rattled off his own counter-statement, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B6A7PtfmRgT7Q1kzZEVXUThMLWc\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Is Segregation Scriptural?<\/a>\u201d Bob Jones University (BJU) later transcribed the sermon and distributed it frequently to their constituency and sold it in pamphlet form in their campus bookstore. From 1960 until 1986, this sermon was their official statement defending their racism.<\/p>\n<p>No library in the world catalogs this statement. BJU\u2019s archives have labeled this \u201crestricted access\u201d and will not copy its pages. <em>This<\/em> is the statement BJU does not want you to see despite the fact that they distributed it so widely until 1986. I have acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0B6A7PtfmRgT7aDBXc3lscERSSm8\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">a series of texts never before seen by outside historians<\/a> (and rarely seen by insiders) from Bob Jones University from 1952 through 1975. These are official letters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2011\/05\/they-talked-themselves-out-of-it-april-1958\/\">public<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2013\/03\/15\/is-segregation-scriptural-by-bob-jones-sr-1960\/\">statements<\/a>, and internal memos. Observing the repetitive paragraphs across the statements proves that these were boilerplate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><b>This post was originally published on May 25, 2011.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Sunday after Graham&#8217;s statement, on Easter Morning, one of those Southern rebels from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[89,107,167,290,579,662,663],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speak","tag-billy-graham","tag-bob-jones-university","tag-civil-war","tag-fundamentalism","tag-racial-reconciliation","tag-segregation","tag-separation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Civil War II - Manassas - A Time To Laugh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2013\/03\/17\/civil-war-ii-manassas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Camille Lewis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/17\\\/civil-war-ii-manassas\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/2013\\\/03\\\/17\\\/civil-war-ii-manassas\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Camille Lewis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.drslewis.org\\\/camille\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e93a8c9ec8fb8b926471114158437f82\"},\"headline\":\"Civil War II &#8212; 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