Lue Shelby Oral History Interivew.

Collection

Identifier: CN 369

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Lue Shelby in which she describes her family background; Voice of Calvary Ministries; the health clinic started by VOC; health problems among the the low-income population in Jackson, MS; Bible study for patients and staff at the clinic; programs for educating the community in personal health care; racial conditions in Mississippi; and the VOC Fellowship Church. The time period covered by the interview is 1953-1987.

Lue Shelby was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on June 19, 1987, at Voice of Calvary offices in Jackson, Mississippi.

Dates

Created: 1987

Creator

Shelby, Lue. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.

Biographical Information

Lue Shelby was born March 10, 1953, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When she was three months old, her family moved to Joliet, Illinois. She was converted at age fourteen in Joliet. The family regularly visited relatives in Mississippi several times each year and, when she was seventeen, they moved back to Mississippi to New Hebron. The move came about because her father retired and her mother lost her sight and wished to be closer to her family. She attended her last year of high school in Mississippi and then went four years to Jackson State, majoring in sociology.

Shelby went to work for Voice of Calvary (VOC), which she knew about through her sister, Vera, the wife of VOC founder John Perkins. VOC established a health clinic in a poor section of Jackson, and after working there for a while, Shelby switched to working part-time at VOC while she returned to school to become a certified medical laboratory technician. As of 1987 she was working full time as a technician in the clinic.

Extent

1 Audio Tape

45 Minutes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Accruals and Additions

The materials in this collection were given to the Billy Graham Center Archives by Lue Shelby in June 1987.

Accession 87-78

July 12, 1994

Janyce H. Nasgowitz

W. G. Thompson