Presbyterian General Assemblies

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History of Presbyterian General Assemblies--annual and now biennial meetings to review the work of the denomination and resolve controversies within the church. Featured image: Rev. Joan Salmon Campbell at the 202nd General Assembly, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1990.

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Title:
Rev. Dr. James H. Costen at the 209th General Assembly in Syracuse, New York, June 1997.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 209th General Assembly - Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) - Syracuse, N.Y. - June 1997 - Photo by Ron Rice.
Creator:
Rice, Ronald B., 1937- (photographer)
Subject names:
Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (209th : 1997 : Syracuse, N.Y.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Syracuse (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300395
Title:
Thelma Adair at the 188th General Assembly, 1976.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: UPC Moderator Thelma Adair.
Subject names:
Adair, Thelma.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women--United States., Social reformers--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:289474
Title:
Passing the Gavel.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Louisville -- Dr. Charles E.S. Kraemer (right) hands over the moderator's gavel to Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, the first black person ever to be moderator of the 900,000 member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern). Dr. Bottoms, 66, the pastor of the predominantly white Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Ga., won a first-ballot victory at the denomination's 114th General Assembly in Louisville to succeed Dr. Kraemer as moderator. Dr. Bottoms had already set to other precedents in the 113-year-old PCUS, when he served as the first black moderator of the Louisville Presbytery and the first black moderator of any PCUS synod (Kentucky) -- both in 1962. Credit Must Read: Religious News Service Photo. (C-LOU-6C-74-DS)
Creator:
Religious News Service. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service., Bottoms, Lawrence., Kraemer, Charles E. S., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American clergy., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
Geographic subjects:
Louisville (Ky.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:281788
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Rev. Virgil Jones, Chairman of Standing Committee on Church and Race.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., Jones, Virgil.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Presbyterian Church--Clergy., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161355
Title:
182nd General Assembly, Chicago, Illinois, May 1970.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Dr. Hazaiah Williams, Director of Urban Black Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, addressing the Pre-Assembly Conference on Evangelism.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Division of Mass Media.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A General Assembly (182nd : 1970 : Chicago, Ill.), Graduate Theological Union. Center for Urban-Black Studies., Williams, Hazaiah.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Presbyterian Church--Clergy., African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161341
Title:
181st General Assembly, San Antonio, Texas, May 1969.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Rev. Gayraud Wilmore, Chairman of Division of Church and Race, addresses the General Assembly.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (181st : 1969 : San Antonio, Tex.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., African American Presbyterians., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161322
Title:
181st General Assembly, San Antonio, Texas, May 1969.
Description:
Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Rev. Edler Hawkins, Chairman of Council on Church and Race, Rev. Gayraud Wilmore, Chairman of Division of Church and Race, and Rev. John Duley, Chairman Standing Committee on Church and Society.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (181st : 1969 : San Antonio, Tex.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-, Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977., Duley, John.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Congresses., African American Presbyterians., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161288
Title:
Eugene Turner, Gayraud Wilmore, and Oscar McCloud at General Assembly.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921- (creator)
Subject names:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921---Archives., Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-, Turner, Eugene G., 1934-, McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American clergy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160497
Title:
Rev. Kermit Overton at the 183rd General Assembly in Rochester, N.Y., 1971.
Description:
The Rev. Kermit Overton of Black Presbyterians United, urging modification of reunion plans with the Presbyterian Church U.S.
Creator:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (183rd : 1971 : Rochester, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (183rd : 1971 : Rochester, N.Y.), Overton, Kermit Everett, 1924-1996., National Black Presbyterians United.
Topics:
Christian union--Presbyterian Church--20th century., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States--20th century., African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects:
Rochester (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160304
Title:
Black Manifesto Leadership at 181st General Assembly, 1969.
Description:
Spokesmen for black- and brown-power organizations outline their positions at press conference following Assembly session. From left: Obed Lopez, of the Latin American Defense Organization; Eliezer Risco, of La Raza; James Forman, of the National Black Economic Development Conference; the Rev. Gayraud S. Wilmore, chairman of the Presbyterian Division of Church and Race; the Rev. J. Metz Rollins, of the National Committee of Black Churchmen; the Rev. Willis C. Tabor, of Black Presbyterians United; and the Rev. Frank H. Heinze, of the Presbyterian Office of Information. (From Presbyterian Life, June 15, 1969, p. 8, "Challenge and response" article.)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (181st : 1969 : San Antonio, Texas), Lopez, Obed., Risco, Eliezer., Forman, James, 1928-2005., Wilmore, Gayraud S., Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926-, Tabor, Willis C., Heinze, Frank H., Latin American Defense Organization (Chicago, Ill.), National Black Economic Development Conference (1969 : Detroit, Mich.), National Black Presbyterians United.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139009
Title:
Black manifesto, May 15, 1969.
Description:
Presentation of UPCUSA General Council to the General Assembly by Eliezer Risco, Obed Lopez, Gayraud Wilmore, James Forman, Metz Rollins, and Edler G. Hawkins to the 181st General Assembly, May 15, 1969, on Forman's Black Manifesto and racial reconciliation.
Creator:
Risco, Eliezer. (speaker), Lopez, Obed. (speaker), Wilmore, Gayraud S. (speaker), Forman, James, 1928-2005. (speaker), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (speaker), Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (speaker)
Subject names:
Forman, James, 1928-2005., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (181st : 1969 : San Antonio, Texas)
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116533
Title:
Robert Ervin Wilson oral history.
Description:
Presbyterian Historical Society Records Archivist David Staniunas interviews Robert E. Wilson, vice-moderator of the 217th Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama, 2006. Wilson was born on January 23, 1939 in Gastonia, N.C., and raised in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Barred from professional employment by segregation in North Carolina, Wilson found federal civil service work at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, N.J., in 1961. He and Patricia Isles were married on June 17, 1961. The couple joined Ironia Presbyterian Church (Ironia, N.J.) in 1963. Wilson retired from the federal civil service in 1995. In 2001, he served as president of the National Council of Presbyterian Men.
Creator:
Wilson, Robert E., 1939- (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Wilson, Robert E., 1939-, Gray, Joan S. (Joan Standridge), 1952-
Topics:
African American Presbyterians.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116406
Title:
Edler G. Hawkins speech, 1964.
Description:
Edler Hawkins speaking on the role of the Presbyterian Church in the civil rights struggle. Presented at General Assembly, probably 1964.
Creator:
Hawkins, Edler Garnett, 1908-1977. (speaker)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly (176th : 1964 : Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Topics:
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians., Civil rights--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Oklahoma City (Okla.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116235

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