Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

==Civil rights history==
{{Main|Civil rights movement}}
In 1951, President [[Duke Kimbrough McCall]] [[Racial integration|integrated]] the campus, in defiance of [[Kentucky Revised Statutes|Kentucky state laws]] that established segregation at public facilities. At the height of the [[Civil Rights Movement]], Southern would become the only SBC agency to host a visit by Baptist minister and civil rights leader [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] (1961).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=1783|title=The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories|website=[[Library of Congress]]|publisher=The American Folklife Center|access-date=January 10, 2015}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID717906_CIID2018760,00.html |title=Dr. King's Visit – SBTS |publisher=Archives.sbts.edu |date=May 11, 2005 |access-date=April 7, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720042054/http://archives.sbts.edu/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID325566_CHID717906_CIID2018760,00.html |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> During King's address at SBTS, he mentioned he had been to the seminary's chapel several times in the past when accompanying his mother since King's mother was an organist for the Women's Auxiliary of the [[National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.|National Baptist Convention]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/address-mlk-southern-baptist-theological-seminary |title=Address by MLK at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |last1=King Jr.|first1=Martin Luther |date=April 19, 1961 |website=[[King Center for Nonviolent Social Change]] |publisher=[[JPMorgan Chase]] |access-date=January 12, 2015}}</ref>
[[File:Martin Luther King Jr. at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.jpg|thumb|Martin Luther King Jr. preached in Southern Seminary chapel in 1961. King met with professors (from left to right) Henlee Barnette, Nolan Howington and Allen Graves.]]
As a result, many donors withheld their gifts to Southern, and some demanded McCall's resignation for letting King speak in the seminary chapel.<ref name="losingtrust">{{cite book |last=Wills |first=Gregory |date=2009 |title=Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859–2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4n5lSPm9g60C&pg=PA415 |location=[[New York, New York]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=417 |isbn= 9780199703784|access-date=January 10, 2015 }}</ref>

In 2018, a report was released about its connections to slavery. Controversy regarding this subject was circulated and interracial ministers coalition requested The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to financially support nearby black colleges as a result. Despite the request, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary denied the request. As a response to the request, President R. Albert Mohler Jr. and board Chair F.Matthew Schmucker released the following statement:<blockquote>''“We agree with the policy of the Southern Baptist Convention in this regard, and we do not believe that financial reparations are the appropriate response,”'' </blockquote>There are claims stating that the founders owned more than 50 slaves.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://religionnews.com/2019/06/05/southern-baptist-seminary-denies-request-for-reparations/|title=Southern Baptist seminary denies request for reparations|last=Banks|first=Adelle M.|date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>