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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
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Description:Interview (part one) 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:359656
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Description:Interview of PC(USA) stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson II by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, June 2023.Creator:Nelson, J. Herbert, 1959-, II (interviewee)Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357740
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Description:Jermaine Ross-Allam of the PC(USA) Center for Repair of Historic Harms, interviewed by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, May 29, 2023.Creator:Ross-Allam, Jermaine. (interviewee), Priest, Margaret. (interviewer)Subject names:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Center for the Repair of Historic Harms.Topics:Racism--United States., Reparations for historical injustices., African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:354005
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Title:Description:On racial justice in the PC(USA) since 1981. Wesley Woo is a Presbyterian minister, raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, ordained in 1972. From 1983 to 1991 he served as Associate for Asian Church Development, and Associate for Racial Justice Ministries. From 1992 to 2002 he worked for the Center for Community Change. He is a member of Christ United Presbyterian Church (San Francisco, Calif.).Creator:Woo, Wesley Stephen, 1945- (interviewee)Topics:Asian American Presbyterians, Chinese American Presbyterians, Racism--Religious aspects--PresbyteriansURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:353409
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Title:Creator:Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003. (interviewee), Costen, James Hutten, 1955-2018. (interviewer)Subject names:Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American Christian educators., African American clergy.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:348016
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Description:Oral history, 28 November 2023, on the history of Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.), its property struggles with the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, and the eventual reparative actions undertaken by the presbytery in 2023.Creator:Portis, Cedric (interviewee), Staniunas, David (interviewer)Subject names:Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.)Topics:African American PresbyteriansURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:347416
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Creator:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Task Force on Central America.Topics:Church and social problems--Presbyterians., Church and the world., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterians.Geographic subjects:Central America--Politics and government--1979-, Central America--Social conditions--1979-URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345493
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Description:Video featuring Dean Lewis and Dieter Hessel, labeled "Theol and Social plenary," likely a Social Witness Implications of Reunion meeting, possibly at Ghost Ranch.Creator:Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Advisory Council on Church and Society, Lewis, Dean, 1926-2021Topics:Church and social problems--Presbyterians., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterians., Church and the world.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345492
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Description:Mary Jane Stickley oral history, 2 August 2023, on CROP support of agricultural education and animal husbandry at Jibrail, in Northern Lebanon, 1960-1961.Creator:Stickley, Mary JaneSubject names:Christian Rural Overseas ProjectTopics:Missions--LebanonURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345458
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Description:Seminar by Melva Costen, likely around the publication of Costen's book, African American Christian Worship, 1993.Creator:Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (speaker)Subject names:Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023.Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American public worship., Church music--African American churches.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345455
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Description:Seminar by Melva Costen, likely around the publication of Costen's book, African American Christian Worship, 1993.Creator:Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (speaker)Subject names:Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023.Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American public worship., Church music--African American churches.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345454
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Description:Seminar by Melva Costen, likely around the publication of Costen's book, African American Christian Worship, 1993.Creator:Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (speaker)Subject names:Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023.Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American public worship., Church music--African American churches.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345435
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Description:Seminar by Melva Costen, likely around the publication of Costen's book, African American Christian Worship, 1993.Creator:Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023. (speaker)Subject names:Trinity Lutheran Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023.Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American public worship., Church music--African American churches.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345434
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Description:Via North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCFaXaadLMCreator:Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023.Subject names:North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345295
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Description:A promotional film for the Presbyterian-operated Boggs Academy in Keysville, Georgia. Tells the story of Shirley, a little girl who dreams of learning everything at Boggs. Produced by the PCUSA Board of National Missions, 1937.Creator:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Boggs Academy.Topics:African Americans--Education--Georgia--Keysville., African American children--Georgia--Keysville.Geographic subjects:Keysville (Ga.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344681
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Description:Oral history interview of Dick Lundy, 11 May 2022, on St. Luke Presbyterian Church (Wayzata, Minn.) accompaniment of Rene Hurtado, a refugee from El Salvador. Dick Lundy is a Presbyterian minister. From 1969 to 1980 he was pastor of McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church (Champaign, Ill.). From 1980 to 1994 he was senior pastor of St. Luke Presbyterian Church (Wayzata, Minn.).Creator:Lundy, Richard A., 1932-Topics:Sanctuary movement, El Salvador--History--1979-1992URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344180
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Description:Oral history with Babs Miller, parish associate at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.), on her career in ministry, including with Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.) during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, and as an evangelist with That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS) in the 2000s. Babs Miller is a Presbyterian minister, ordained by Mission Presbytery in 2014. Born in Victoria, Texas in 1942, she attended the Presbyterian School for Christian Education (Richmond, Va.) in the 1960s, and worked as a Christian educator, a social worker, and a high school teacher in Texas. She went to Austin Theological Seminary from 1987 to 1990, came out as a lesbian, and began work with Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.). From about 2004 to 2012 she was an evangelist with That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS). She has served as parish associate at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.) since 2014, and continues advocacy for GLBTQ+ rights, in particular protection of trans youth and their families threatened by Texas state law codifying trans health therapies as child abuse. Starting in 2015, Miller was part of the group at St. Andrew's, as part of the Austin Sanctuary Network, declaring public sanctuary for migrants, and helped a mother and child, Hilda and Ivan, seek asylum.Creator:Miller, Babs Ann, 1942- (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)Subject names:Metropolitan Community Church (Austin, Tex.), That All May Freely Serve (Association), St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.)Topics:Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterians., Sanctuary movement., Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterians., Church work with immigrants.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344175