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Audio recording of James Robinson's funeral service, 1972.
Title
Audio recording of James Robinson's funeral service, 1972.
Description
Recording of November 10, 1972 funeral service, at Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), of James Herman Robinson. Founder of Operation Crossroads Africa, Robinson was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1907, and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) in 1938. As pastor of Harlem's Presbyterian Church of the Master, he organized a credit union, an early childhood education program, and upstate New York camps for Harlem's youth. As a member of the NAACP and the Urban League, Robinson was identified by the US State Department as a subversive, and threatened with revocation of his passport. Beginning in 1951, Robinson served the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions as a roving ambassador, visiting mission fields in Africa and Asia. In 1958, Robinson organized Operation Crossroads Africa under the auspices of COEMAR; the program sent American medical students to West Africa. At its peak, Crossroads Africa sent 350 students to 20 African nations. Robinson suffered three heart attacks in 1969, and died in 1972.
Creator Name(s)
Robinson, James Herman, 1907-1972.
Date Created
1972, 1972, 1972
Name Subject(s)
Church of the Master (New York, N.Y.), Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations. Crossroads Africa, Robinson, James Herman, 1907-1972., Operation Crossroads Africa.
Topical Subject(s)
Clergy--Presbyterian Church--20th century.
Geographic subjects
North and Central America--United States--New York--New York, 20th century.
Physical Location
ARCHIVES 13-1124c; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item
Audio recording of James Robinson's funeral service, 1972.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=75388
Identifier (local)
1168642-01C-000
(PID) Persistent Identifier
islandora:177412