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God Doesn't Look At Skin Color, Oral Roberts

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This is a transcript of the September 26, 1989 chapel service held on the campus of Oral Roberts University in which Oral Roberts delivered a message entitled, "God Doesn't Look at Skin Color."

Roberts shares that when the university opened, a member of the federal government called him to ask about his racial policy. He replied, "ORU is established in three ways, first, to be international. Second, to be interdenominational, and third to be interracial."

Chapel Transcript January 14, 1983 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'S Birthday By Larry D. Hart, Larry Hart

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This is a transcript of an ORU Chapel service held on January 14, 1983 on the campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK. The chapel is a celebration of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Reflections on Dr. King were shared by ORU faculty member, Dr. Larry Hart, and students Monty Norwood and Benny McFarland.

Chapel Transcript: February 22, 1974 - "Blackness And Christianity" Bishop G.O. Patterson, Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University

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This is a transcript of a chapel service from February 22, 1974 on the campus of Oral Roberts University. The guest speaker is Bishop G.O. Patterson of the Churches of God Christ, the largest Pentecostal denomination in North America. Also in attendance is Bishop Charles E. Blake, presiding bishop of California. Oral Roberts invited Bishop Patterson in honor of "Negro History Week".

Bishop Patterson's topic was "blackness and Christianity." He discusses the idea that Christianity is not a "white man's religion" as some in his day were saying. He traces the historic roots of Christianity into Africa, through Church history …

Chapel Transcript: February 20, 1974 - Bob Goodwin Black Heritage Week, Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University

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This is chapel transcript from "Black Awareness Week" held on February 20, 1974 on the campus of Oral Roberts University. The Speaker is Robert (Bob) Goodwin. Goodwin was born in Tulsa and a graduate of Oral Roberts University. Goodwin was the editor of his father''s newspaper, the Oklahoma Eagle, an African American newspaper in Tulsa. He also worked in the President George H.W. Bush administration.

Black Awareness Chapel 2-21-1973 - Student Testimonies, Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

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This is a transcript of a Chapel on the campus of Oral Roberts University during the 1973 Black Awareness Week. The chapel is dedicated to testimonies of black students reflecting on the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. for racial equality.

Racism Is Wrong - Mayor James Evers - Oru Chapel, Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University

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This is a transcript of the September 27, 1972 Chapel service on the campus of Oral Roberts University where Mayor James Evers, one of only four black mayors in the United States, delivered a message entitled, "Why Racism is Wrong".

Chapel Transcript: Governor George Wallace 9-13-1972, Oral Roberts

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This is a chapel Transcript of a chapel service on the campus of Oral Roberts University on September 13, 1972. Oral Roberts had just returned from a crusade in Alabama. While there, he was contacted by Governor George Wallace to come to his home to pray for his healing after he was paralyzed from an assassination attempt.

Wallace was one of the chief proponents of segregation in the south and had run for president several times. Roberts expresses that he although he did not support Wallace's views, he did accept him as a human being who had needs that God …

Chapel Transcript: February 18, 1972 - Black Awareness Chapel Mccrary Singers, Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University

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This is a transcript of a chapel held on February 18, 1972, on the campus of Oral Roberts University. The guests are members of the McCrary Singers. This is a transcript of the talks about the black experience that took place between songs.

Chapel Transcript: February 16, 1972- Black Awareness Panel, Holy Spirit Research Center, Oral Roberts University

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This is a transcript of a chapel held on February 16, 1972 on the campus of Oral Roberts University. The theme of the chapel was issues surrounding black Americans. The talk included a panel discussion of race issues that included the following:

• Don Ross, director of the Tulsa Labor Program,
• Dr. Zan Holms, Texas legislator and Methodist superintendent,
• Homer Johnson, director of the Citizen Participation program of Model Cities.

This rather lengthy talk included discussion of racism, poverty, societal structures, militancy and black/white relations as well as questions and comments from ORU students.

Chapel Transcript: Black Heritage Week - February 17, 1971, Oral Roberts

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This is a transcript of a chapel service during Black Heritage Week in February of 1971. Oral Roberts shares about various aspects of race relations in Tulsa and in America. Roberts uses the story of Simon the Cyrene to illustrate that a black man was the last person to help Jesus before he died. Roberts also shared stories of his interaction with leaders in the black community in Tulsa.