When America's most famous revivalist, Billy Sunday, laid plans for an evangelistic campaign in Washington, D.C. to begin in January 1918, a correspondent to the Washington Bee newspaper proposed that, in view of Sunday's refusal to address racial injustice, the city's black churches organize their own revival, and that Sheafe would be the best counter to Sunday as preacher.
See "The Greatest Evangelist and Singer the Race Has Produced," posted 4 December 2010.
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