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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
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
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
Description:
Oral history by Mark Davidson, former pastor of the Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.), on the congregation's advocacy for a just peace in Israel Palestine and their 2012 sponsorship of a city bus advertisement by the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation / U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
Creator:
Davidson, Mark
Subject names:
Church of Reconciliation (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Topics:
Human rights advocacy--Palestine--Religious aspects
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309420
Description:
Interview of J. Herbert Nelson II, taken 13 January 2023, on his time at Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Creator:
Nelson, J. Herbert II, 1959- (interviewee)
Subject names:
Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism, Racism--United States
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309059
Creator:
Jitegemea Production (film producer), Boro, Wanjiku (film director)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church of East Africa., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives.
Topics:
East Africans.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300799
Description:
Interview with Dr. James Costen regarding his retirement from the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia in 1998.
Creator:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives., Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African American leadership.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300797
Description:
Joe Scrivner is Dean of Chapel at Stillman College (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and pastor of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Creator:
Scrivner, Joe (interviewee)
Subject names:
Stillman College, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism--Religious aspects--Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294115
Description:
Magalene McClarrin is a Presbyterian educator. Born in Roanoke, Va., she graduated from Johnson C. Smith University in 1972 and was recrutied to teach English in the Wyandanch Union Fre School District on Long Island. She is a member of Memorial Presbyterian Church (Roosevelt, N.Y.) and has served as moderator of the Presbytery of Long Island committee on ministry.
Creator:
McClarrin, Magalene
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287167
Description:
Oral history, 2022, on growing up in Urmia and Golpashan, the genocide of Assyrians during the First World War, the transfer of mission schools to government control after 1934, her mother Lillie's career as a teacher, and her father Mishael's work as a Presbyterian pastor in Urmia and at Gaston Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.). Eden Naby is an Assyrian-Iranian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the Assyrian village of Golpashan, located outside Urmia in Iran. She has conducted research, taught and published on minority issues in countries from Turkey to Xinjiang. Her work on Afghanistan and on the Assyrians stands out in the field of cultural survival.
Creator:
Naby, Eden. (interviewee)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission
Topics:
Missions--Iran--Urūmīyah., Missionaries--Iran--Urūmīyah., Assyrians--Iran--Urūmīyah--History--20th century., Assyrians--Crimes against--Iran--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286183
Description:
Interview of Jerry Van Marter by David Staniunas, on Synod of the Golden Gate involvement in the UPCUSA's contribution to the Angela Davis legal defense fund, and Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer (Richmond, Calif.) work with the Black Panther Party. Van Marter served at Redeemer from 1971 to 1975, and at High Street Presbyterian Church (Oakland, Calif.) from 1977 to 1979.
Creator:
Van Marter, Jerry
Subject names:
High Street Presbyterian Church (Oakland, Calif.), Black Panther Party, Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer (Richmond, Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181239
Description:
Interview of Deanna Roberts, archivists, Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary (N.Y.) by David Staniunas, PHS Records Archivist, on the use and abuse of archives regarding the occupation of Palestine. Recorded September 2020.
Creator:
Roberts, Deanna. (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Roberts, Deanna--Interviews.
Topics:
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Confiscations and claims., Arab-Israeli conflict--History., Palestinian Arabs., Cultural property--Palestine., Books--Palestine.
Geographic subjects:
Palestine--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:167079
Creator:
Latimer, Allie, 1929-
Subject names:
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166009
Creator:
Latimer, Allie, 1929-
Subject names:
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Topics:
African American Presbyterians
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166008

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