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Description:Dan Smith was a Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister, longtime pastor of West Hollywood United Church of Christ. He was born 2 February 1953 in Buffalo, N.Y., and educated at SUNY Fredonia and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a conscientious objector during the American war in Vietnam. He was ordained in 1978 and spent six years installed at First Presbyterian Church (Geneva, N.Y.) before moving to Los Angeles. He took the pastorate of West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) in 1984, becoming the first openly gay minister installed in a PC(USA) congregation. During his tenure the congregation would spearhead AIDS ministry in West Hollywood, and build the Lazarus Project, dedicated to reconciling the church with its LGBTQ community. Smith retired in 2020. He died 12 June 2023.Creator:Smith, Daniel Edmund, 1953-2023. (dedicatee), West Hollywood United Church of Christ (Los Angeles, Calif.) (creator)Subject names:West Hollywood Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.), Smith, Daniel Edmund, 1953-2023.Topics:LGBTQ+ Presbyterians., Gay clergy.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345470
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Description:Cassette tape 3, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses social pronouncements of the General Assembly and Presbyterians' history of supporting education. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.Creator:Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly.Topics:Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345268
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Description:Cassette tape 2, side 2 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses the work of the Advisory Council on Church and Society, including the creation of task forces. Lewis also discusses commissioners' resolutions at general assemblies, the General Assembly Mission Council, and other aspects of church polity. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.Creator:Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly Mission Council.Topics:Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345267
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Description:Cassette tape 2, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses the functions of the Advisory Council on Church and Society and the processes of establishing task forces. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.Creator:Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force to Study Homosexuality.Topics:Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344680
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Description:Cassette tape 1, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses his upbringing as a Southern Baptist in Missouri, his attendance of Yale Divinity School, his time as a pastor in Springdale, Arkansas, and his career leading up to his time in the Office of Church and Society. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344382
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Description:Cassette tape 1, side 1 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses his upbringing as a Southern Baptist in Missouri, his attendance of Yale Divinity School, his time as a pastor in Springdale, Arkansas, and his career leading up to his time in the Office of Church and Society. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.Creator:Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)Subject names:Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021., Yale University. Divinity School., William Jewell College., Niebuhr, H. Richard (Helmut Richard), 1894-1962., First Presbyterian Church (Springdale, Ark.)Topics:Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344362
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Description:Cassette tape 1, side 2 of an interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 11 to 12, 1988. Dean Lewis discusses the history of the Department of Social Education and Action (SEA), the Department of Social Education and Evangelism, and the Office of Church and Society and the work of the Office of Church and Society throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Part of a 5 cassette tape set.Creator:Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021. (interviewee), Brackenridge, R. Douglas. (interviewer)Subject names:Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Social Education and Action., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Office of Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Christian Education. Department of Church and Society., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Advisory Council on Church and Society., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society.Topics:Church and the world., Social policy., Church polity.Geographic subjects:South Africa.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344318
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Description:Metz Rollins speaking about the civil rights movement at Ghost Ranch (Abiquiú, New Mexico) on July 19, 1983. Rollins speaks about the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, his time in Tallahassee, Florida (including his arrest for aiding Florida A&M University students in the Tallahassee city bus boycott), his time in Nashville, Tennessee (including his participation in the Nashville sit-ins), and the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Part 1 of 12.Creator:Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- (speaker)Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926-Topics:Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--United States., African American clergy., African American Presbyterians., Civil rights demonstrations.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344307
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Creator:Fanniel, Leon, 1930-2018. (author)Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society--Archives., Fanniel, Leon, 1930-2018., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Mission Council.Topics:Church and the world., African American Presbyterians., African American clergy.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344287
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Description:Transcript of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake's memorial address for Rev. Bruce William Klunder, a white Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who died after he was run over by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Blake delivered the eulogy at Klunder's funeral services at Church of the Covenant.Creator:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (author)Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964.Topics:Civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Funeral service--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland.Geographic subjects:Cleveland (Ohio)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344177
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from front of DVD: WTM Oral History Project - Melva Costen - October 1, 2008. Interview conducted at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.Creator:Moore, Mary Elizabeth, 1945- (interviewer), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (interviewee)Subject names:Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American leadership., African American Christian educators., Music--Religious aspects., Civil rights movements--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300798
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Description:PCUS Department of Negro Work subject file on Metz Rollins and Trinity Presbyterian Church (Tallahassee, Fla.)Creator:Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of Church Extension. Division of Negro Work. (creator)Subject names:Trinity Presbyterian Church (Tallahassee, Fla.), First Presbyterian Church (Tallahassee, Fla.), Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926-2009.Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181761
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Description:Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Father Luis Haramillo reports on La Nueva Raza (the Chicano movement.)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.), Jaramillo, Luis.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Chicano movement., Mexican American clergy., Mexican American political activists.Geographic subjects:Chicago (Ill.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161366
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Description:Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Representatives of Women's Liberation.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.), Women's Liberation Movement (Chicago, Ill.)Topics:Presbyterian Church--Congresses., Women political activists., Feminism--Religious aspects--Christianity.Geographic subjects:Chicago (Ill.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161352
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Description:Text transcribed from slide set's accompanying script: Mr. Herman Holmes, Acting Director, National Black Economic Development Conference.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.), National Black Economic Development Conference., Holmes, Herman.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Congresses., African American civil rights workers., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.Geographic subjects:Chicago (Ill.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161351
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Description:Reunion of Presbyterian staff involved in the Civil Rights Movement. From left: Clint Marsh, Dean Lewis, Frank Gordon, Jack McClendon, Gay Wilmore, Gene Turner, Reg Hawkins, Bob Shirley, Lee Swann, Gene Farlough, Dave Ramage, Vera Swann, Rita Dixon, Oscar McCloud, Mary Jane Patterson, W. D. Tolbert, Mike Elligan, Jim Costen, Lillian Anthony, Phil Young, Bryant George, Mildred Brown.Creator:McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936- (creator)Subject names:McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936---Archives., McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-Topics:African American Presbyterians., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.Geographic subjects:Atlanta (Ga.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160508
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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
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Description:Compiled written responses made by 13 Black Presbyterians in regards to race relations in the PC(USA).Creator:National Black Presbyterians United. (creator)Subject names:McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936---Archives., National Black Presbyterians United., Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160486
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Description:Statement made by twenty Black Presbyterians in support of the $10,000 grant made to the Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund. Includes the list of the names of all twenty contributers.Subject names:McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936---Archives., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race., Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Church controversies--Presbyterian Church--United States--20th century., African American women political activists--United States--20th century., African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160482
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Title:Description:Pamphlet published by the Council on Church and Race which addresses the controversy surrounding the Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund.Subject names:McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936---Archives., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund., Stair, Lois, 1923-1981., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race.Topics:Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Church controversies--Presbyterian Church--United States--20th century., African American women political activists--United States--20th century.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:160469
