Indianapolis Recorder: Local White Pastor Makes Out Plane Insurance to NAACP – Annotation

“Local White Pastor Makes Out Plane Ins. to NAACP,” Indianapolis Recorder, April 6, 1957, p. 3 – Transcript || Annotation || Archive


Local White Pastor Makes Out Plane Ins. to NAACP

A local white minister taking a plane trip last week made out his airline insurance to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Rev. James W. Jones. Pastor of the People’s Temple, 1502 N. New Jersey, before boarding the plane took out $25,000 worth of insurance and designated the NAACP as beneficiary.

Rev. Jones flew to Memphis to visit his wife, who has been ill at the home of her parents there.

“It certainly would have solved our financial problems, but he is worth a lot more than that to us alive” observed as a local NAACP leader as the plane arrived safely.

A life member of the NAACP, the youthful minister crusades for integration in his church, at the People’s Nursing Home, 2354 N. College Ave., and on his television program over WFBM-TV (Channel 6) at 8:45 Sunday mornings.

Mrs. Jones, whose health is somewhat improved, returned to the city with her husband.