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Witness accounts of atrocities committed by death squads in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and testimony of a Salvadoran woman sheltered by Central Presbyterian Church (Massillon, Ohio).
Creator:
United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1985 : Purdue University)., Yeager, Elizabeth Clair Hobart, 1925-2021, Elder, Diane
Topics:
Sanctuary movement, Atrocities -- Central America -- History -- 20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979-, United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America., Central America -- Foreign relations -- United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286243
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Recorded at the United Presbyterian Women's National Meeting, Purdue University, July 17-22, 1985. Marta Benavides (born 1943) is a feminist religious leader from El Salvador. She is a theologian, ordained American Baptist minister, permaculturist, educator, and artist. After the military coup in El Salvador in 1979 and the outbreak of the Salvadoran Civil War, she became the leader of the Ecumenical Committee for Humanitarian Aid, a group sponsored by the Archbishop Óscar Romero. From 1982 to 1992 she lived in exile in the United States and Mexico.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1985 : Purdue University)., Benavides, Marta
Topics:
Central America--Social conditions, Central America--Politics and government, Sanctuary movement
Geographic subjects:
El Salvador--History--Civil War, 1979-1992.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286242
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Recorded October 2, 1985 in Princeton, N.J. Part of oral history program for clergywomen. Peggy Howland was a Presbyterian minister and a peace and reproductive justice activist. Born in 1933, she graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and became the the 12th woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament on October 19, 1958. She completed a Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary in 1966. In 1968 she chaired the UPCUSA General Assembly's subcommittee on Vietnam. In 1969 she took the pastorate of Woodside Presbyterian Church (Troy, N.Y.). In Troy, she organized the Clergy Consultation Service on Problem Pregnancies, a group of fourteen clergy who provided "all options" counseling to women seeking legal or safe abortion. In the years after Roe v Wade, Howland was active in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, seeking to maintain safe and legal abortion. In retirement in Florida she was active in the Orlando Gay Chorus. She died of COVID-19 in 2021.
Creator:
Howland, Margaret Elizabeth, 1933-2021. (interviewee), Brasfield, Alice, 1931- (interviewer)
Topics:
Women clergy--Presbyterian Church.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286184
Description:
Recorded October 18, 1979 in Philadelphia. Seminar conducted by Lois Boyd for the Oral History Committee of the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Creator:
Presbyterian Historical Society, Boyd, Lois A., 1936-2007 (speaker)
Topics:
Public history--United States
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286181
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Blake and Barnes in conversation on their 1956 trip to Moscow as president and assistant general secretary, respectively, of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Recorded in the board room of the Presbyterian Historical Society, November 9, 1982. Also present, Jean Ware Hoyt Blake, William B. Miller, and Gerald Gillette. Conversation touches on anti-communism of the early 1950s, CIA recruitment of Blake, Blake's interactions with R. W. Scott McLeod and Joseph McCarthy. Includes account of Willem Visser 't Hooft's work with the Roman Catholic church.
Creator:
Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1990, Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286180
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Soboleff interviewed by Margaret Deck at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, May 23, 1987.
Creator:
Soboleff, Walter A., 1908-2011 (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)
Topics:
Tlingit Indians--Alaska., Missions--Alaska., Tlingit Indians--Religion.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286020
Description:
Soboleff interviewed by Margaret Deck at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, May 23, 1987.
Creator:
Soboleff, Walter A., 1908-2011. (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)
Topics:
Tlingit Indians--Alaska., Missions--Alaska., Tlingit Indians--Religion.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:285859
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G., Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians, African American intellectuals.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:285289
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G., Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:285288
Description:
Medical missionary Edwin B. McDaniel speaking at Overbrook Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), July 11, 1954. 1986 Audio cassette dub from open-reel audio tape.
Creator:
McDaniel, Edwin B. (Edwin Bailey), 1917-1999 (speaker)
Subject names:
Overbrook Hospital (Chiang Mai, Thailand), Overbrook Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Missions -- Thailand, Missions, Medical -- Thailand
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281928
Creator:
Hawkins, Ethel. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Richard Allen Institute (Pine Bluff, Ark.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--History., African American churches., African Americans--Religious life.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183635
Creator:
Hawkins, Ethel. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Richard Allen Institute (Pine Bluff, Ark.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--History., African American churches., African Americans--Religious life.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183346
Description:
In Atlanta, 6 December 1990.
Creator:
Marsh, Clinton M. (Clinton McClurkin), 1916-2002. (interviewee), Bottoms, Lawrence Wendell, 1908-1994. (interviewer)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--History., African American churches., African Americans--Religious life.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183345
Description:
At Morningside Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 11 July 1991.
Creator:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003. (interviewee), Bottoms, Lawrence. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--History., African American churches., African Americans--Religious life.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183344
Description:
Recorded July 17, 1983 for the UPW National Meeting, Purdue University
Creator:
United Presbyterian Women
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Women. National Meeting (1983 : Purdue University)
Topics:
Presbyterian women--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177049
Description:
1978 interview of Margaret Ellen Towner, who was ordained at First Presbyterian Church (Syracuse, N.Y.) by the Presbytery of Cayuga-Syracuse, 24 October 1956, the first woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the PCUSA.
Creator:
Towner, Margaret Ellen, 1925-, Wicklein, Edward C., 1934-2017. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Towner, Margaret Ellen, 1925---Interviews.
Topics:
Ordination of women--Presbyterian Church--20th century., Women clergy., Women in church work., Women in the Presbyterian Church., Presbyterian women.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176376
Description:
W. Stanley Rycroft (1899-1993) worked as a missionary, teacher and general advocate for Protestant missions in Latin America and for the separation of church and state in the United States. This interview was recorded January 12, 1983.
Creator:
Rycroft, W. Stanley (William Stanley), 1899-1993. (interviewee), Sinclair, John H., 1924-2021. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Rycroft, W. Stanley (William Stanley), 1899-1993--Interviews.
Topics:
Missions--Latin America., Church and state--Latin America.
Geographic subjects:
Latin America--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176154
Description:
W. Stanley Rycroft (1899-1993) worked as a missionary, teacher and general advocate for Protestant missions in Latin America and for the separation of church and state in the United States. This interview was recorded January 12, 1983.
Creator:
Rycroft, W. Stanley (William Stanley), 1899-1993. (interviewee), Sinclair, John H., 1924-2021. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Rycroft, W. Stanley (William Stanley), 1899-1993--Interviews.
Topics:
Missions--Latin America., Church and state--Latin America.
Geographic subjects:
Latin America--Politics and government.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176153
Description:
W. Stanley Rycroft (1899-1993) worked as a missionary, teacher and general advocate for Protestant missions in Latin America and for the separation of church and state in the United States. This interview was recorded January 12, 1983.
Creator:
Rycroft, W. Stanley (William Stanley), 1899-1993. (interviewee), Sinclair, John H., 1924-2021. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Rycroft, W. Stanley, 1899-1993--Interviews.
Topics:
Missions--Latin America., Church and state--Latin America.
Geographic subjects:
Latin America--Politics and government.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:176152
Description:
W. Stanley Rycroft (1899-1993) worked as a missionary, teacher and general advocate for Protestant missions in Latin America and for the separation of church and state in the United States. This interview was recorded January 12, 1983.
Creator:
Rycroft, W. Stanley (William Stanley), 1899-1993. (interviewee), Sinclair, John H., 1924-2021. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Rycroft, W. Stanley Rycroft, 1899-1993.--Interviews.
Topics:
Missions--Latin America., Church and state--Latin America.
Geographic subjects:
Latin America--Politics and government.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175930

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