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Title: Melva Costen memorial service video, 2023
Description: Memorial service for Melva Costen, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Oscar McCloud presiding. Speakers include J. Herbert Nelson, Denise Anderson, Paul Roberts.
Creator Name(s): Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023, Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), Nelson, J. Herbert, II, 1959-, McCloud, J. Oscar (James Oscar), 1936-, Anderson, T. Denise
Date Created: 2023, 2023, 2023
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians., African American leadership., African American Christian educators.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Atlanta
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-0935; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
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Identifier (local): MelvaCosten-sm
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:345474

Title: Cedric Portis oral history, 2023
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 Name(s): Portis, Cedric (interviewee), Staniunas, David (interviewer)
Date Created: 2023, 2023, 2023
Name Subject(s): Third Presbyterian Church (St. Louis, Mo.)
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Missouri--St. Louis
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-1143; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
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Identifier (local): 23-1143_Portis
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:347416

Title: Edwin Bethea oral history part 1, 2023.
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 Name(s): Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023. (interviewee), Prescott, Sonia. (interviewer), Love, Wendell C. (contributor)
Date Created: 2023, July 3, 2023, July 3, 2023
Name Subject(s): Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023., National Black Presbyterians United.
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Wilcox--Millers Ferry, North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Atlanta
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-0933; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: National Black Presbyterian Caucus oral histories, 2023.--https://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MjA3NDk=
Identifier (local): 23-0933_edwin_bethea_part_1
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359656

Title: Edwin Bethea oral history part 2, 2023.
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 Name(s): Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023. (interviewee), Prescott, Sonia. (interviewer), Love, Wendell C. (contributor)
Date Created: 2023, July 3, 2023, July 3, 2023
Name Subject(s): Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023., National Black Presbyterians United.
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Wilcox--Millers Ferry, North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Atlanta
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-0933; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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Identifier (local): 23-0933_edwin_bethea_part_2
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:359657

Title: Edwin Bethea oral history, 2023.
Description: Via North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCFaXaadLM
Creator Name(s): Bethea, Edwin, 1931-2023.
Date Created: 2023, 2023, 2023
Name Subject(s): North Avenue Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Atlanta
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-0855; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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Identifier (local): 23-0855_EdwinBethea
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:345295

Title: J. Herbert Nelson II oral history, 2023.
Description: Interview of PC(USA) stated clerk J. Herbert Nelson II by Margaret Priest of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, June 2023.
Creator Name(s): Nelson, J. Herbert, 1959-, II (interviewee)
Date Created: 2023, June 2023, June 2023
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-0933; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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Identifier (local): 23-0933_JHerbert
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357740

Title: J. Herbert Nelson II oral history, 2023
Description: Interview of J. Herbert Nelson II, taken 13 January 2023, on his time at Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Creator Name(s): Nelson, J. Herbert II, 1959- (interviewee)
Date Created: 2023, January 13, 2023, January 13, 2023
Name Subject(s): Liberation Community Church (Memphis, Tenn.)
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians, Afrocentrism, Racism--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-0107; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
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Identifier (local): 23-0107_NelsonII
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:309059

Title: Jermaine Ross-Allam oral history, 2023.
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 Name(s): Ross-Allam, Jermaine. (interviewee), Priest, Margaret. (interviewer)
Date Created: 2023, May 29, 2023, May 29, 2023
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Center for the Repair of Historic Harms.
Topical Subject(s): Racism--United States., Reparations for historical injustices., African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: United States.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 23-0933; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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Identifier (local): 23-0933_jermaine_ross-allam
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:354005

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