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History of Presbyterian-affiliated Sunday schools, mission schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, and educators. See the following related collections: Higher education; Church work with youth. Featured image: Biology class at Knoxville College, ca. 1950.

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Title:
Indian Quest.
Description:
"Indian Quest" newsletter, October 1977 issue.
Subject names:
Corbett, Cecil, 1931-2020--Archives., Corbett, Cecil, 1931-2020., Native American Theological Association.
Topics:
Alaska Natives., Church work with youth--United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Indigenous Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288127
Title:
A student reads at a school located in the Dekwaneh refugee camp.
Description:
Palestine 215 The refugee problem is largely a problem of youth, for the total of 860,000 refugees more than half are below sixteen years old. At this school a lesson in Arabic is going on. This school in the Dekwani [Dekwaneh] camp in Lebanon has 155 pupils who need books, stationery, and blackboards.
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--Lebanon--Beirut., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83414
Title:
Vocational school of the World Church Council.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Hungary., Refugees--Austria.
Geographic subjects:
Austria.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83402
Title:
Student writing on blackboard.
Description:
"We want to go home," an Arab schoolboy writes on the blackboard in a refugee camp in Hebron. This longing to return to homes in Palestine is the dominant, almost-exclusive desire of 850,000 Arab refugees in camps scattered from Egypt to the Lebanon (except in Israel, where their former homes are). (World Copyright fee paid by World Council of Churches to cover use in church periodicals only.) [Published in April 1952 Presbyterian Survey.]
Creator:
World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Church work with refugees., Refugees--Palestine., Refugees--West Bank., Refugees, Palestinian Arab.
Geographic subjects:
West Bank., Palestine.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83383
Title:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Children's Christmas party, December 1947.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--War work--Churches., Church war work.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7602
Title:
Students and teachers.
Description:
Students and teachers, Board of Church Extension, Division of Negro Work.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives.
Topics:
African Americans--Education., Church work with African American youth.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5977
Title:
Project Head Start.
Description:
Project Head Start at a Presbyterian Church.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race--Archives.
Topics:
Head Start programs--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5593
Title:
Gillespie-Selden Institute, Cordele, Georgia.
Description:
Happy but poor --"Operation Headstart" at Gillespie-Selden Institute, Cordele, Georgia.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Gillespie-Selden Institute for Practical Nursing.
Topics:
Head Start programs--Georgia--Cordele--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Cordele (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5439
Title:
Christopher House.
Description:
Presbytery of Chicago, Christopher House, Vacation Bible School [children with baskets on front sidewalk].
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Chicago.
Topics:
Social settlements--Illinois--Chicago., Christian vacation schools--Illinois--Chicago.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5092
Title:
Child Development Group of Mississippi Head Start Program Scrapbook.
Description:
Juice time. [From: The Graduation of the Class of '67 of the CDGM Head Start Program, Porterville Center, Kemper County, Mississippi, August 27, 1967, page 8.]
Creator:
Child Development Group of Mississippi. (creator)
Subject names:
Child Development Group of Mississippi., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Mission Development--Archives.
Topics:
Head Start programs--Mississippi.
Geographic subjects:
Porterville (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:418

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