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Resource Type:	Books
Language:	English
Location:	Shelves
Date:	2001
Author/Creator:	Smith, Mary F. More by Creator Search Periodicals Using this Creator
Title:	The child bride (no one knew my pain) : a true story $c / by Mary F. Smith
Publisher:	[USA] : 1st Books Library, 2001.
Format:	xxii, 93 p. ; 23 cm.
Description:	Author is the daughter of Frances Thomas, a female Afro-American Pentecostal pastor from Chicago and graduate of A. A. Allen's Miracle Valley Bible College (Miracle Valley, AZ). She established churches in Chicago and Mississippi. Thomas led hundreds of her church members in 1979 to move to Miracle Valley to establish Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church. According to biographer William Daniel, Thomas taught a virulent hatred of white people. Clashes between church members and community members ultimately led to a violent shootout in 1982.
Subject:	Smith, Mary F.--Biography. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Thomas, Frances--Biography. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church (Miracle Valley, AZ)--History. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Children of clergy--United States--Biography. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Afro-American Pentecostal churches--Arizona--Miracle Valley. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject
Date Cataloged:	12/31/2012

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