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Description:Interview (part two) conducted by Sonia Prescott with Edwin Ayres Bethea and Wendell Charles Love on July 3, 2023. Edwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama on May 15, 1931 to Monroe Ayres Bethea and Marzetta Pressley Bethea. Edwin spent his early childhood years with his grandparents and other paternal family members in Millers Ferry, Wilcox County, Alabama. Calvin B. Bethea (born 1863) and Annie McArthur Bethea (born 1868), Edwin’s paternal grandparents, were sharecroppers on the properties of Judge William Henderson in Millers Ferry. Edwin was educated in one of the six mission schools in Wilcox County supported by the Freedman’s Bureau and the United Presbyterian Church of North America. As his parents had been before him, Edwin was a student at the Millers Ferry Normal and Industrial School. In the interviews, Edwin provides a firsthand account of the Black Presbyterian experience in Wilcox County.Creator:Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023. (interviewee), Prescott, Sonia. (interviewer), Love, Wendell C. (contributor)Subject names:Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023., National Black Presbyterians United.Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359657
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Description:Interview (part one) conducted by Sonia Prescott with Edwin Ayres Bethea and Wendell Charles Love on July 3, 2023. Edwin was born in Birmingham, Alabama on May 15, 1931 to Monroe Ayres Bethea and Marzetta Pressley Bethea. Edwin spent his early childhood years with his grandparents and other paternal family members in Millers Ferry, Wilcox County, Alabama. Calvin B. Bethea (born 1863) and Annie McArthur Bethea (born 1868), Edwin’s paternal grandparents, were sharecroppers on the properties of Judge William Henderson in Millers Ferry. Edwin was educated in one of the six mission schools in Wilcox County supported by the Freedman’s Bureau and the United Presbyterian Church of North America. As his parents had been before him, Edwin was a student at the Millers Ferry Normal and Industrial School. In the interviews, Edwin provides a firsthand account of the Black Presbyterian experience in Wilcox County.Creator:Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023. (interviewee), Prescott, Sonia. (interviewer), Love, Wendell C. (contributor)Subject names:Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023., National Black Presbyterians United.Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359656
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Description:Interview of PC(USA) stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson II by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, June 2023.Creator:Nelson, J. Herbert, 1959-, II (interviewee)Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357740
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Description:Jermaine Ross-Allam of the PC(USA) Center for Repair of Historic Harms, interviewed by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, May 29, 2023.Creator:Ross-Allam, Jermaine. (interviewee), Priest, Margaret. (interviewer)Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Center for the Repair of Historic Harms.Topics:Racism--United States., Reparations for historical injustices., African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:354005
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Description:Oral history, 28 November 2023, on the history of Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.), its property struggles with the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, and the eventual reparative actions undertaken by the presbytery in 2023.Creator:Portis, Cedric (interviewee), Staniunas, David (interviewer)Subject names:Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.)Topics:African American PresbyteriansURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:347416
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Description:Memorial service for Melva Costen, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Oscar McCloud presiding. Speakers include J. Herbert Nelson, Denise Anderson, Paul Roberts.Creator:Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Nelson, J. Herbert, II, 1959-, McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-, Anderson, T. DeniseTopics:African American Presbyterians., African American leadership., African American Christian educators.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345474
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Description:Mary Jane Stickley oral history, 2 August 2023, on CROP support of agricultural education and animal husbandry at Jibrail, in Northern Lebanon, 1960-1961.Creator:Stickley, Mary JaneSubject names:Christian Rural Overseas ProjectTopics:Missions--LebanonURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345458
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Description:Via North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCFaXaadLMCreator:Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023.Subject names:North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345295
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Description:Oral history by Mark Davidson, former pastor of the Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.), on the congregation's advocacy for a just peace in Israel Palestine and their 2012 sponsorship of a city bus advertisement by the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation / U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.Creator:Davidson, MarkSubject names:Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.)Topics:Human rights advocacy--Palestine--Religious aspectsURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309420
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Description:Interview of J. Herbert Nelson II, taken 13 January 2023, on his time at Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)Creator:Nelson, J. Herbert II, 1959- (interviewee)Subject names:Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)Topics:African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism, Racism--United StatesURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309059
