Robert Edward Seymour, Jr.
2020
Robert Edward Seymour, Jr., was born in 1925 and was the only child of Janie Sproles Seymour and Robert Edward Seymour, Sr. of Greenwood, SC. In his career as a clergyman, he served four churches in North Carolina, culminating in a three-decade ministry as the first pastor of The Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. Seymour was active in the civil rights movement, and in his book, Whites Only, he describes how the racial issue was a defining theme of his professional career. A forthcoming documentary, "You Can't Hold Back the Spring", illuminates his life and ministry. Seymour began his college education at The Citadel in Charleston, SC, where after a year he volunteered...