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Henlee Hulix Barnette was born on 14 August, 1911 in Taylorsville, North Carolina, U.S., is an American professor of Christian ethics. Discover Henlee Hulix Barnette's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

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Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 14 August 1911
Birthday 14 August
Birthplace Taylorsville, North Carolina, U.S.
Date of death 20 October, 2004
Died Place Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1911

Henlee Hulix Barnette (August 14, 1911 – October 20, 2004) was an American social activist, professor of Christian ethics, minister, and author.

Barnette was born on August 14, 1911, in Taylorsville, North Carolina.

1925

He dropped out of school in the sixth grade and his family moved to Kannapolis, North Carolina in 1925.

He converted to Christianity there at the age of 19 and returned to school at age 22 on the advice of his pastor, Wade Jones.

1935

He was ordained a minister in 1935.

While at graduate school at Southern he ministered at the Haymarket Mission in Louisville, where he was head of the mission for three years, and was referred to as the "Bishop of the Haymarket".

Later, having moved back to Louisville, he was a member of the Crescent Hill Baptist Church there.

1940

He graduated at age 26 and went on to study at Wake Forest College, from where he graduated with honors in 1940.

After Wake Forest College, Barnette attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ("Southern") in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received a Master's in Theology and a PhD.

He later studied at Harvard University, Columbia University and the University of Florida.

1946

Barnette's first teaching position was at Samford University (then Howard College), in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1946 to 1947 as a professor of sociology, followed by Stetson University in Florida from 1947 to 1951.

Barnette was focused on race as a social issue from at least 1946.

He helped to found the Interracial Baptist Pastors Conference in Birmingham Alabama while at Samford.

1951

In 1951, he joined the faculty at Southern, where he remained until 1977.

1953

After Charlotte's death in childbirth in 1953, Barnette was remarried in 1956 to Helen Poarch, with whom he had a daughter, Martha, and a son, James, known as Jim.

His oldest son, John, served in the United States Air Force in the Vietnam War.

His second son, Wayne, moved to Sweden at the same time to avoid the draft.

Barnette himself was vocally opposed to US engagement in Vietnam.

His daughter, Martha Barnette, is also an author and presents the weekly radio show A Way with Words on the subject of language.

James has taught as a professor of religion at Samford University.

1954

On June 7, 1954, Barnette testified before a subcommittee of Congress in favor of strengthening the role of the United Nations.

1956

From 1956 to 1959 he was acting dean of the School of Theology there.

1957

In 1957, he met with Nikita Khrushchev at the Kremlin and helped establish an exchange program for college students between the United States and the Soviet Union.

As a result of the meeting with Khrushchev and his relationship with King, Barnette was the subject of FBI investigation and surveillance between 1957 and 1974.

1961

His first book, Introducing Christian Ethics (1961), became a standard text in his field.

He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and met with Nikita Khrushchev to set up a college student exchange program with the Soviet Union.

His 1961 work Introducing Christian Ethics was a standard text.

In 1961, having marched for civil rights, Barnette invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at Southern and helped to arrange that visit, where King gave the Julian Brown Gay Lectures.

He marched with King in Frankfort, Kentucky.

1971

In 1971 he helped in the establishment of a Black Church Studies program.

Barnette married twice, first to Charlotte Ford, with whom he had two sons, John and Wayne.

1977

After 26 years teaching at Southern, Barnette went on to work at the University of Louisville Medical School, teaching psychiatry from 1977 until 1992.

Barnette wrote widely on topics in Christian ethics and particularly biomedical ethics.

1992

His other works include a book about New Testament Greek scholar Clarence Jordan, in 1992, about whom he had given the lecture "Clarence Jordan: A prophet in blue jeans" in April 1983, and a memoir, A Pilgrimage of Faith: My Journey, completed shortly before his death.

In all, he authored fifteen books.

For most of his life, Barnette was a committed Baptist.

He first converted to Christianity at the North Kannapolis Baptist Church in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

2004

Barnette died on October 20, 2004, in Louisville, Kentucky.

His funeral was held at the Crescent Hill Baptist Church of Louisville on October 25.

The Henlee Hulix Barnette Papers are available for research at Wake Forest University.