Katie G. Cannon Collection

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Katie Geneva Cannon was the first Black woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church. She was born in 1950 in the Fisher Town neighborhood of Kannapolis, N.C., one of the seven children of Corine and Esau Cannon. She graduated from Barber-Scotia College (Concord, N.C.), completed a Doctor of Divinity at Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, and was the first African American to complete a Doctor of Philosophy at Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). She was ordained by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Catawba in 1974. A founding voice in Womanist theology, Cannon taught at Temple University, and Union Presbyterian Seminary (Richmond, Va.). In 2018 she founded the Center for Womanist Ethics at Union in Richmond; she died August 8, 2018. This collection represents in a single online location personal records of Katie's that she intended to distribute among Presbyterian Historical Society, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York. Featured image: Katie G. Cannon preaching, circa 1993.

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Title:
How to Eat to Preach.
Description:
Katie G. Cannon sermon on Romans 12:1-2, recorded for Interdenominational Theological Center homiletics class about 1974. Original open reel tape recorded in two sides on a single track in two channels. Split to two files, forward and reverse, upon digital transfer.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (speaker)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.--Archives., Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Sermons, American--African American women authors., Bible. Romans--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339490
Title:
Having the Courage to See.
Description:
Katie G. Cannon sermon on Proverbs 29:18, recorded for Interdenominational Theological Center homiletics class about 1974. Original open reel tape recorded in two sides on a single track in two channels. Split to two files, forward and reverse, upon digital transfer.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (speaker)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.--Archives., Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Sermons, American--African American women authors., Bible. Proverbs--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339486
Title:
Gayraud Wilmore address at Virginia Union University, 2005.
Description:
WAV rip from CD.
Creator:
Wilmore, Gayraud S. (speaker)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.--Archives., Wilmore, Gayraud S., Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339453
Title:
Katie G. Cannon Inauguration as the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics.
Description:
Materials related to Katie G. Cannon being installed as the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.--Archives., Cannon, Katie G., Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Theology--Study and teaching., Womanist theology., African American college teachers.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:302284
Title:
The switching of robes and hoods
Description:
Dr. Katie Cannon, Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union-PSCE, delivers her inaugural address in which she speaks about ethical lessons learned from the true story of Ruby McCollum, whose trial Zora Neale Hurston covered for the Pittsburgh Courier in 1952 and 1953.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G.
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.--Archives, Hurston, Zora Neale., McCollum, Ruby, 1909-1992.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Womanist theology., African American women authors.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177187
Title:
Lessons of Liberation in the Struggle for Freedom.
Description:
Written by Katie G. Cannon, Ph.D., Union Presbyterian Seminary. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., Boesak, Allan, 1945-., Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Womanist theology., Liberation theology.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:175711
Title:
Trouble in Paradise.
Description:
Written by Katie G. Cannon, Ph.D., Union Presbyterian Seminary. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G., Archives., Morrison, Toni., Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Womanist theology., African American women authors.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:174791
Title:
Virginia Union University lecture 3, 2002.
Description:
Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology 53rd John Malcus Ellison convocation, November 13, 2002. wav file ripped from CD. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G.
Subject names:
Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology (Richmond, Va.), Cannon, Katie G.--Archives., Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American women clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:170582
Title:
Virginia Union University lecture 2, 2002.
Description:
Virginia Union University School of Theology 53rd John Malcus Ellison convocation, November 13, 2002. wav file ripped from CD. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G.
Subject names:
Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.), Cannon, Katie G.--Archives.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American women clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:170581
Title:
Virginia Union University lecture 1, 2002.
Description:
Virginia Union University School of Theology 53rd John Malcus Ellison convocation, November 12, 2002. wav file ripped from CD. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G.
Subject names:
Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.), Cannon, Katie G.--Archives.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American women clergy.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:170580
Title:
Katie Geneva Cannon, African American Heritage Week homily, 1992.
Description:
Delivered at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, February 18, 1992.
Creator:
Cannon, Katie G. (author)
Subject names:
Cannon, Katie G.--Archives., Union Presbyterian Seminary.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Sermons, American--African American women authors., Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Geographic subjects:
Richmond (Va.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166500

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