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