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- Title
- First Negro elected to head Detroit Council of Churches.
- Description
- Newspaper clipping from the Detroit Free Press.
- Creator Name(s)
- Detroit Free Press Co. (publisher), Ward, Hiley H. (author)
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Roberts, Joseph Lawrence., Bethel A.M.E. Church (Detroit, Mich.), Metropolitan Detroit Council of Churches., Lenox, G. Merrill (Gordon Merrill), 1902-1995.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--Appointment, call, and election., African American clergy--Michigan--Detroit., African American civic leaders--Michigan--Detroit.
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. P-30531; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-30531_02
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:353538
- Title
- Detroit council names Negro.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-30531 DETROIT COUNCIL NAMES NEGRO DETROIT, Mich. -- Dr. Joseph Lawrence Roberts, pastor of the 2,200-member Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church in Detroit, Mich., became the first Negro to be elected president of the Detroit Council of Churches in the 45-year history of the organization. He is shown here with Dr. G. Merrill Lenox, executive director of the Council, who noted in his remarks welcoming Dr. Roberts to the post that more than 20 percent of the organization's constituency is Negro. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (HW-D-1E-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Associated Press. (author)
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Roberts, Joseph Lawrence., Bethel A.M.E. Church (Detroit, Mich.), Metropolitan Detroit Council of Churches., Lenox, G. Merrill (Gordon Merrill), 1902-1995.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--Appointment, call, and election., African American clergy--Michigan--Detroit., African American civic leaders--Michigan--Detroit.
- Geographic subjects
- Michigan, Detroit., Michigan, Detroit., Detroit (Mich.), North and Central America--United States--Michigan--Wayne--Detroit
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. P-30531; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-30531
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:353787
