African American history

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African American history, including church, mid council, and national agency records; personal papers; photographs; publications; and oral histories collected as part of the African American Leaders and Congregations Initiative. Featured image: Student minister with boys, Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, Charlotte, N.C., circa 1950.

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Title:
A thanksgiving sermon, preached January 1, 1808, in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
Description:
By Absalom Jones, Rector of the said church.
Creator:
Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818. (author)
Subject names:
St. Thomas' Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Slavery--United States--19th century., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slave trade--United States--19th century., Sermons, American.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177233
Title:
Out of the House of Bondage
Description:
By the author of Friendly counsels for freedmen, etc.
Creator:
Waterbury, J. B. (Jared Bell), 1799-1876. (author)
Topics:
Freedmen., Freedmen--Conduct of life., Slavery--United States--19th century., Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slavery in the Bible., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177196
Title:
Report on the Condition of the Freedmen of the Mississippi
Description:
By James E. Yeatman, President of the Commission.
Creator:
Yeatman, James E., 1818-1901. (author)
Subject names:
Western Sanitary Commission.
Topics:
Freedmen--Mississippi., Slaves--Emancipation--Mississippi., Slavery--United States--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Mississippi.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176503
Title:
Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement.
Description:
Signed on behalf of the committee by Robert Purvis, Chairman.
Creator:
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898. (author)
Topics:
African Americans--Suffrage.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176484
Title:
African American missions.
Description:
Unidentified women cooking.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions., African American women.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175919
Title:
African American missions.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175918
Title:
Dr. St. Elmo Brady.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Brady, St. Elmo, 1884-1966.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions., African American chemists.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175916
Title:
African American missions.
Description:
An unidentified man reading Africo-American Presbyterian, a weekly African-American newspaper from Charlotte, North Carolina that includes local, state, national, and Presbyterian news along with advertising.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions., African American newspapers--North Carolina.
Geographic subjects:
North Carolina
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175915
Title:
African American missions.
Description:
Girls' choir.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions., African American children., Children's choirs.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175914
Title:
African American missions.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: A cabin near the Tombigbee. Property of Ms. E. F. Johnston.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Tombigbee River (Miss. and Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175911
Title:
Ashmun Collegiate Institute, 1865.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: President's House. Main Building of the College and the Professor's now in course of erection. Professor's House.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. College Board--Archives., Ashmun Institute., Ashmun Institute--Buildings.
Topics:
African American universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Oxford., African Americans--Education--Pennsylvania--Oxford., College buildings--Pennsylvania--Oxford.
Geographic subjects:
Oxford (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175909
Title:
Bettie Durrah receiving the Edler Hawkins Award.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Melva Costen; Moderator Joan Gray and spouse; Edler Hawkins award, June 14, 2007.
Subject names:
Durrah, Bettie J.--Archives., Durrah, Bettie J., National Black Presbyterian Caucus., Gray, Joan S. (Joan Standridge), 1952-., Gray, Bill., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023., Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women., African American women in church work.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175908
Title:
Bettie Durrah's choreopoetry reading.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Reading Bette’s choreopoem, “Colors of the Human Family.” Radcliffe PC.
Subject names:
Durrah, Bettie J.--Archives., Durrah, Bettie J., Radcliffe Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women., Oral interpretation of poetry.
Geographic subjects:
Atlanta (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175907
Title:
Ashmun Institute, Oxford, Chester Co., Pa.
Description:
Brief history and overview of Ashmun Institute in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Written by Rev. John M. Dickey, D.D., President of Board of Trustees.
Creator:
Dickey, J. M. (John Miller), 1806-1878. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. College Board--Archives., Ashmun Institute.
Topics:
African American universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Oxford., African Americans--Education--Pennsylvania--Oxford.
Geographic subjects:
Oxford (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175905
Title:
Wallingford Presbyterian Church, Charleston, South Carolina.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Wallingford. Young leaders and Sunday school teachers.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Wallingford Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.)
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions., African American Presbyterians., Sunday school teachers.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175904
Title:
Wallingford Presbyterian Church, Charleston, South Carolina.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Wallingford Church, Charleston, S.C. Wednesday evening prayer meeting. Rev. Scott, Minister.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Wallingford Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.)
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions., African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
Charleston (S.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175902
Title:
African American missions.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175900
Title:
City missions.
Description:
Original title: Inner city missions.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., City missions., City children.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175899
Title:
African American missions.
Description:
Portrait of an unidentified child.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions., African American children.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175898
Title:
African American missions.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175897

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