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:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) session minutes, 1960-1967.
Description:
Session minutes for Westminster Presbyterian Church, a predominantly African American congregation in Los Angeles.
Creator:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) (creator)
Subject names:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--California--Los Angeles.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.), Los Angeles (Calif.)--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281490
Title:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) session minutes, 1950-1960.
Description:
Session minutes for Westminster Presbyterian Church, a predominantly African American congregation in Los Angeles.
Creator:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) (creator)
Subject names:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--California--Los Angeles.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.), Los Angeles (Calif.)--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281237
Title:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) session minutes, 1922-1940.
Description:
Session minutes for Westminster Presbyterian Church, a predominantly African American congregation in Los Angeles.
Creator:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) (creator)
Subject names:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--California--Los Angeles.
Geographic subjects:
Los Angeles (Calif.), Los Angeles (Calif.)--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280940
Title:
Leon Fanniel interviewed by Beth Shalom Hessel, 2017.
Description:
Leon Fanniel, Presbyterian musician, administrator, and minister, was born in 1930 in Kansas City, Mo., and graduated from Huston-Tillotson College (Austin, Tex.), George Williams College (Chicago, Ill.), and McCormick Theological Seminary. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Chicago in 1969. Fanniel was executive of the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii in 1971-1972, and became the first executive director of the General Assembly Mission Council, serving from 1972 to 1975. Fanniel served as pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) from 1975 to 1996. He died December 20, 2018 in Pasadena, California.
Creator:
Fanniel, Leon, 1930-2018. (interviewee), Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer)
Subject names:
National Black Presbyterian Caucus.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149653

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