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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: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:Memorial service for Melva Costen, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Oscar McCloud presiding. Speakers include J. Herbert Nelson, Denise Anderson, Paul Roberts.Creator:Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Nelson, J. Herbert, II, 1959-, McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-, Anderson, T. DeniseTopics:African American Presbyterians., African American leadership., African American Christian educators.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:345474
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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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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: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
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Title:Description:Written, directed, and produced by Anika Leila Gibbons. Executive produced by Union Theological Seminary. Includes interviews with Dr. Emilie Townes, Dr. Jacquelyn Grant, Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas and Dr. Katie Cannon.Creator:Gibbons, Anika Leila. (creator), Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) (producer)Subject names:Cannon, Katie G.--Archives., Cannon, Katie G., Townes, Emilie Maureen, 1955-, Grant, Jacquelyn., Douglas, Kelly Brown., Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., African American women clergy., Womanist theology., Christian ethics.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287112
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Description:Video lecture delivered for New York Theological Seminary, 30 March 1988.Creator:Wilmore, Gayraud S. (Gayraud Stephen), 1921-2020. (speaker)Subject names:New York Theological Seminary., Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915.Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280761
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Description:Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary, delivers a lecture on doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God as lessons of liberation for the life of seminary and church. Using the life story and literary writings of Phillis Wheatley to illuminate these lessons of liberation, the speaker asks what difference it might make in seminaries, churches, and the dailiness of our Christian lives, if we took seriously the writings of Phillis Wheatley and others from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.Creator:Cannon, Katie G.Subject names:Wheatley, Phyllis, 1753-1784., Cannon, Katie G.Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States., Womanist theology., African American women authors., Liberation theology., Church and education.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177195
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Description:Presidential Inaugural Lecture on theme "The Challenge of the 21st Century," April 8, 2011, held at the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia. m4v file ripped from DVD. Credit: Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.Creator:Cannon, Katie G.Subject names:Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)Topics:African American Presbyterians., African American intellectuals., Presbyterian women--United States.Geographic subjects:Atlanta (Ga.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:170579
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Title:Description:Oral history taken with Oscar McCloud at the gathering of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus in Atlanta, June 27, 2019.Creator:McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936- (interviewee)Subject names:McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936---Interviews.Topics:African American Presbyterians.Geographic subjects:Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.--United States.--Foreign relationsURL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:167078
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Description:Interview of Corine Cannon conducted in Atlanta, Ga., June 2019Creator:Cannon, Corine, 1919-Subject names:Cannon, Corine, 1919-Topics:African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women--United States.Geographic subjects:Kannapolis (N.C.), Atlanta (Ga.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150680
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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