illustrator Norman Rockwell debuted a Saturday Evening Post cover picture featuring a family walking to church, with the men in suits and the ladies wearing dresses, hats and gloves. These days ...

an usher at the predominantly black D.C. church where Allen was a member for six decades. Those qualities were both external — black suits and white gloves — and internal — a dignified ...

They felt honored and privileged to wear their white nurse-like ... Knighton was 10 when he first wore the white gloves and badge of a Baptist church usher — nearly 50 years ago.