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As new film draws attention, Washington church recalls real butler as quiet man of steady faith
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Eugene Allen served eight presidents as a White House butler, and his legendary career is the inspiration for Lee Daniels’ The Butler, a film starring Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda and a host of A-list Hollywood talent. But members of The Greater First Baptist Church knew the man who died in 2010 by...
Jim White