Lacey Kirk Williams (1871,

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-1940) was an

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who became President of the National Baptist Convention. He was appointed Vice President to the

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in 1928. He died in an aeroplane crash in 1940. In 1919 he was appointed to the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Lacey Kirk 1871 births 1940 deaths African-American Baptist ministers 20th-century African-American people