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Title: African American history
Description: African American history, including church, mid council, and national agency records; personal papers; photographs; publications; and oral histories collected as part of the African American Leaders and Congregations Initiative. Featured image: Student minister with boys, Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, Charlotte, N.C., circa 1950.
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: United States., North and Central America--United States, United States.
Physical Location: Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier (local): islandora:afam
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:afam

Title: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. African American Synods Collection
Description: The African American Synods Collection consists of the annual minutes of the synods of Atlantic, East Tennessee/Blue Ridge, Canadian, and Catawba; newsletters published by the synods of Atlantic and Catawba; and a small number of photographs of members of the synods of Atlantic and Catawba. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized.
Featured image: Synod of Atlantic group photo.
Date Created: 1873, 1873-1988, 1873, 1988, 1873-1988
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Atlantic., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Atlantic., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Blue Ridge., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of East Tennessee., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Canadian., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Catawba., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Catawba.
Topical Subject(s): African American women--Societies and clubs., African American Presbyterians--History--20th century., African American Presbyterians--Periodicals.
Geographic subjects: 20th century., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 395; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. African American Synods Collection, 1873-1988.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-395
Identifier (local): rg395
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:rg395

Title: Katie G. Cannon Collection
Description: Katie Geneva Cannon was the first Black woman ordained a minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church. She was born in 1950 in the Fisher Town neighborhood of Kannapolis, N.C., one of the seven children of Corine and Esau Cannon. She graduated from Barber-Scotia College (Concord, N.C.), completed a Doctor of Divinity at Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, and was the first African American to complete a Doctor of Philosophy at Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). She was ordained by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Catawba in 1974. A founding voice in Womanist theology, Cannon taught at Temple University, and Union Presbyterian Seminary (Richmond, Va.). In 2018 she founded the Center for Womanist Ethics at Union in Richmond; she died August 8, 2018. This collection represents in a single online location personal records of Katie's that she intended to distribute among Presbyterian Historical Society, Union Presbyterian Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Featured image: Katie G. Cannon preaching, circa 1993.
Creator Name(s): Cannon, Katie G. (creator)
Name Subject(s): Cannon, Katie G.
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians., Presbyterian women--United States., African American women., Womanist theology.
Geographic subjects: United States., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: 21 0109; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier (local): islandora:kgc
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:kgc

Title: Higher education
Description: History of Presbyterian-affiliated colleges, seminaries, and universities.
Featured image: Rev. Dr. Kenneth Bailey and Rev. Emile Zaki with pre-seminary students in Assiut, 1963.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian universities and colleges., Education, Higher., Religious education., Junior colleges., Presbyterian Church--Education., Presbyterian theological seminaries., African American schools., African Americans--Education.
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:highered

Title: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen Records
Description: At the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865, the General Assembly (PCUSA--Old School) appointed a Committee for Education of Freedmen, to establish churches and schools. At the 1870 reunion, this committee merged with the Freedmen's Department of the New School Committee of Home Missions; the new committee was named Committee of Missions for Freedmen. In 1883, the Freedmen's Committee was formally incorporated as the Board of Missions for Freedmen. The new board, like its predecessors, helped to educate and supply black teachers and preachers in the southern United States. It built and supported black schools, churches, colleges and seminaries and prescribed courses of study to be used. In 1923, the Freedmen's Board merged with other boards and agencies to become the Board of National Missions. This collection consists of the records of the Board of Missions for Freedmen and its predecessors. The collection includes annual reports, correspondence, minutes, and application books. View the collection guide to learn more.
Featured image: Committee on Freedmen first annual report, presented May 1866.
Creator Name(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. (creator)
Date Created: 1864, 1864-1972, 1864, 1972, 1864-1972
Name Subject(s): United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen., Presbyterian Committee of Home Missions (U.S.). Freedmen's Dept., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Committee for Education of Freedmen., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Committee of Missions for Freedmen., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Unit of Work with Colored People., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Unit of Schools and Hospitals.
Topical Subject(s): Freedmen--Religious life., African Americans--Missions--Finance., Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
Geographic subjects: United States., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: RG 376; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen Records, 1864-1972.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-376
Identifier (local): rg376
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:rg376

Title: Education
Description: History of Presbyterian-affiliated Sunday schools, mission schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, and educators. See the following related collections: Higher education; Church work with youth.
Featured image: Biology class at Knoxville College, ca. 1950.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--Education., Education, Secondary., Education, Higher., Religious education., Junior colleges., Sunday schools., Presbyterian theological seminaries., Presbyterian vacation schools., African American schools., African Americans--Education., Religious educators., Presbyterian universities and colleges.
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:education

Title: PC(USA) Self-Studies on Racism
Description: The 224th General Assembly in June 2020 passed item 00-29, "On the Church in this moment in history," which called Presbyterians to corporate repentance: "Repenting, both personally and corporately, for the role we as individuals and as a predominantly White-dominated church played in history and continue to perpetuate today, even if unknowingly, in systemic racism and White Supremacy, especially in terms of our own local silence, silencing those who attempt to speak or act, and our failure to act regarding police brutality, voter suppression, educational and healthcare inequality, and other acts of systemic racism on federal, state, and local levels." This is a collection of published materials created by PC(USA) congregations who have undertaken research in order to repair past action against or inaction for racial justice.
Topical Subject(s): Presbyterian Church--United States--History., Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Anti-racism--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., African American Presbyterians--History., Slavery and the church--Presbyterian Church.
Physical Location: Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Identifier (local): islandora:self_study_racism
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:self_study_racism

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