{"id":237,"date":"2022-02-16T05:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T05:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2023-08-15T21:47:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T21:47:46","slug":"dr-ew-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/dr-ew-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. EW Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EW-Perry.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238\"\/><figcaption>Dr. E.W. Perry, Photo from Gateway to OK History<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>EW Perry might be one of the best preachers that you have never heard of. He was born in 1882 and died in the 1960s. He was a long time pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Oklahoma City and the first African-American man to preach before the southern Baptist convention. He did so at the invitation of RG Lee in 1949. This is very special audio that you&#8217;re hearing today because to my knowledge this is the only recording of him preaching!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about Dr. Perry and his life&#8217;s work <a href=\"https:\/\/sbcvoices.com\/baptists-you-should-know-ew-perry\/\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EW-Perry-1960.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EW Perry might be one of the best preachers that you have never heard of. He was born in 1882 and died in the 1960s. He was a long time pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Oklahoma City and the first African-American man to preach before the southern Baptist convention. He did so at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/dr-ew-perry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. EW Perry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}