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- Title
- Passing the Gavel.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: Louisville -- Dr. Charles E.S. Kraemer (right) hands over the moderator's gavel to Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, the first black person ever to be moderator of the 900,000 member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern). Dr. Bottoms, 66, the pastor of the predominantly white Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Ga., won a first-ballot victory at the denomination's 114th General Assembly in Louisville to succeed Dr. Kraemer as moderator. Dr. Bottoms had already set to other precedents in the 113-year-old PCUS, when he served as the first black moderator of the Louisville Presbytery and the first black moderator of any PCUS synod (Kentucky) -- both in 1962. Credit Must Read: Religious News Service Photo. (C-LOU-6C-74-DS)
- Creator Name(s)
- Religious News Service. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1974, June 1974, June 1974
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service., Bottoms, Lawrence., Kraemer, Charles E. S., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
- Topical Subject(s)
- African American Presbyterians., African American clergy., Presbyterian Church--Congresses.
- Geographic subjects
- Louisville (Ky.), North and Central America--United States--Kentucky--Jefferson--Louisville
- Physical Location
- RG 414, Series I; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Lawrence Bottoms Biographical Vertical File.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=YzYzYjljY2MtNTRkYi00NDdkLTgxZmQtZGQ1NmRkZjkxMzk2&rID=Mjg4Mw==
- Identifier (local)
- ds6700
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:281788