Rev samuel billy kyles bio
Rev samuel billy kyles bio
Rev samuel billy kyles bio and children.
Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles — pastor, civil rights leader, 'lovely human being'
March 27, 1968 -- Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles (left) and Rev. James Lawson at a sanitation strike rally (Ken Ross, Courtesy Special Collections / University of Memphis Libraries)
September 23, 2009 -- The Dalai Lama, Rev.
Samuel Billy Kyles and Dr. Benjamin Hooks step out to the balcony where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated at the National Civil Rights Museum. The Dalai Lama was moved when he discovered he was standing in the space where King's life was taken and he blessed it.
(Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal files) (Photo: Mike Brown)
His given name was Samuel, like the prophet. But when he was a small boy in Mississippi in the 1930s, his mother started calling him Billy, after the famous evangelist Billy Sunday.
“My mother would see me having funerals for dead birds or baptizing cats and dogs, so she started calling me little Billy,” Rev.
Samuel Billy Kyles recalled in an interview a decade ago.