October 9, 1933

The Chancery Court ruled that Dale Crowley was the rightful leader of the Jonesboro Baptist Church, which had been founded by traveling revivalist Joe Jeffers after he led a schism from the already established First Baptist Church. The series of violent conflicts between various factions of the Jonesboro Baptist community that took place from 1931 to 1933 is known as the Jonesboro Church Wars.

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