Charles Kenzie Steele was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, in 1914 to Lyde Bailor and Henry L. Steel, a miner with the United States Steel and Coal Corporation. Steele began preaching at the young age of 15. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1935, and three years later, he earned his B.A. degree […]

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