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Blacks In The History Of The Bethel Churches (Methodist) Of Charleston, South Carolina, David Myers Jun 2022

Blacks In The History Of The Bethel Churches (Methodist) Of Charleston, South Carolina, David Myers

Methodist Books

This book is a study of the Black members of the various Bethel Methodist Churches in Charleston, SC, based on the records of those churches and on published histories of those churches.


Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Kelli Johnson Jan 2020

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Kelli Johnson

Publications

In June 1905, on the fourth Sunday of that month, a petition signed by forty-one members of First Baptist Church was read. The petition asked for letters of dismissal from the Church in order to organize and start and new church. Those forty-one people wanted to create a new church that better met the needs of the community. After a vote, with only one dissent, the news was delivered to the Church clerk on a Thursday in July. This new church would become the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.


Amos Wimbush Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

Amos Wimbush Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Papers and memorabilia of Amos Wimbush and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, including 1918 photo postcard of Camp Robson, Little Rock, Arkansas and newspaper article about Mr. Wimbush.


Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed Nov 2016

Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …


Creating Knowledge, Volume 9, 2016 Jan 2016

Creating Knowledge, Volume 9, 2016

Creating Knowledge

Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni and Friends,

Throughout my career as faculty and administrator in higher education I have been honored with the opportunity to introduce and celebrate the publication of scholarly work by colleagues and graduate students in many disciplines and institutions around the world. After more than three decades of doing so, this is the first time that I have the pleasure of introducing a formal publication of work created by a talented group of undergraduate scholars. This honor is further magnified by the fact that beyond its formal format, this is a reviewed publication of extraordinary rigor and …


Creating Knowledge, Volume 7, 2014 Jan 2014

Creating Knowledge, Volume 7, 2014

Creating Knowledge

Dear Students, Faculty Colleagues and Friends, It is my great pleasure to introduce the seventh volume of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Creating Knowledge—our undergraduate student scholarship and research journal. First published in 2008, the journal is the outcome of an initiative to enhance and enrich the academic quality of the student experience within the college. Through this publication, the college seeks to encourage students to become actively engaged in creating scholarship and research and gives them a venue for the publication of their essays.

Beginning with the sixth volume of the journal, we instituted a major …


Liberating Visions: Religion And The Challenge Of Change In Maine,1820 To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Susie Boch, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck Jan 2006

Liberating Visions: Religion And The Challenge Of Change In Maine,1820 To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Susie Boch, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck

Publications (Annual Event Catalog)

Liberating Visions: Religion and the Challenge of Change in Maine, 1820 to the Present. Each of the Sampson Center’s three scholars has crafted an original essay related to one of the Sampson Center collections—African-American, Judaic, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender—thereby reflecting on how religious institutions have fostered minority identity and have framed social and cultural transformation.


Table of Contents:

Religion and Transformation (Joseph S. Wood, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs)

Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine Programming (Susie Bock, Director, Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine and Head, USM Special Collections)

The African American …


Oral History Interview: Lowell E. Long, Lowell E. Long Nov 1998

Oral History Interview: Lowell E. Long, Lowell E. Long

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Lowell E. Long’s interview focuses on the region of Appalachia: its location, environments, people, and identity. Mr. Long was born in April 1941 in War, McDowell County, WV. His family moved to East Liverpool, OH, after World War II, and relocated to Huntington, WV, in January 1945. In the audio clip provided, Mr. Long discusses what it means to be Appalachian and focuses on family bonds and sense of belonging in the region. During his interview, he describes his family’s use of folk medicine. Mr. Long provides descriptions of the segregated neighborhoods and schools of Huntington, WV, during his childhood. …


Overseas Church And Missionary Directory, Contact Jan 1971

Overseas Church And Missionary Directory, Contact

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Tributes To G.E. Steward, G. E. Steward, Ella Steward Jan 1963

Tributes To G.E. Steward, G. E. Steward, Ella Steward

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Disciples Of Christ In The City, W. Elbert Starn Jan 1954

Disciples Of Christ In The City, W. Elbert Starn

Stone-Campbell Books

A pamphlet by the Disciples of Christ describing the challenges of ministry in the urban and suburban church, the history of urban ministry, and methods of reaching people in the city. Describes racial issues, missions, and ways to help inner-city churches.


Church Organization And Government, H. H. Gray Jr. Jan 1947

Church Organization And Government, H. H. Gray Jr.

Stone-Campbell Books

Third edition


Our Ministers And Song Leaders Of The Church Of Christ, Annie C. Tuggle Jan 1945

Our Ministers And Song Leaders Of The Church Of Christ, Annie C. Tuggle

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


The Harvest Field, Howard L. Schug, Don H. Morris Jan 1942

The Harvest Field, Howard L. Schug, Don H. Morris

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Sermons By Hogan, R. N. Hogan Jan 1940

Sermons By Hogan, R. N. Hogan

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Religion As The Bible Teaches It: True Light And Scripture Doctrine In A Dark World, Paul D. English Jan 1938

Religion As The Bible Teaches It: True Light And Scripture Doctrine In A Dark World, Paul D. English

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


The Third Birth Of A Nation, S. R. Cassius Jan 1925

The Third Birth Of A Nation, S. R. Cassius

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Beginnings Of The Missionary Work And Plans In Arkansas, 1896-1918, Sarah L. Bostick Jan 1918

Beginnings Of The Missionary Work And Plans In Arkansas, 1896-1918, Sarah L. Bostick

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Leader Portrait Album, [F. L. Rowe: Cincinnati, Ohio] Jan 1902

Leader Portrait Album, [F. L. Rowe: Cincinnati, Ohio]

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


Articles Of Agreement Amongst The Preachers, Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference. Jan 1795

Articles Of Agreement Amongst The Preachers, Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference.

Methodist Books

Articles of Agreement Amongst the Preachers relative to slavery, January 2, 1795. The clergy agree about the impropriety and evil of slavery, and its harmful consequences. They resolve that no member of conference should own slaves, and anyone who becomes the possessor of slaves should emancipate them where the law allows, and that any member who acts otherwise shall forfeit their seat at conference and their letter of ordination.


Essay On Negro-Slavery., James O'Kelly Jan 1789

Essay On Negro-Slavery., James O'Kelly

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.