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Collection 432 Papers of Vernon C. Watford

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Identifier: CN 432
Scope and Contents This collection consists of an oral history interview with Vernon C. Watford and a video tape titled "Triple C Bible Camp." The video depicts activities at the Triple C Bible Camp, such as Bible study groups, singing, swimming, games, and campfires, with comments about the camp by supporters, workers, attendees, and parents. This camp was founded by the Watford and his wife. The oral history interiew includes information on Watford's family, childhood, conversion, education at Washington...
Dates: Created: 1990

Collection 557 Oral History Interview with Bob Harrison

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Identifier: CN 557
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Bob Harrison (1928-2012) in which he describes his family, grandmother's (Cornelia Jones Robertson) involvement in original Azusa Street church in Los Angeles and association with Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, racial conditions in America and the church, influence of his mother and grandmother, his musical development and experience as a jazz vocalist, conversion, writing When God Was Black; high receptivity of Third World people to...
Dates: Created: 1998

Collection 533 Oral History Interview with Catherine E. Jeter

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Identifier: CN 533
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Catherine Elizabeth Jeter in which she discusses her childhood; conversion to Christianity through a neighborhood Bible club; education; marriage to Joseph Jeter; the start of their ministry (Have Christ Will Travel Ministries); work with inner-city children of Philadelphia and summer camp ministry in Nova Scotia, Canada; and the 1961 Billy Graham crusade in Philadelphia. Other topics discussed include: Jeter’s education at Philadelphia College of the Bible; Short...
Dates: Created: 1996

Collection 555 Oral History Interview with Willie Richardson

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Identifier: CN 555
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Rev. Willie Richardson in which he describes his childhood in South Carolina and Pennsylvania, conversion and call to ministry, education at the Philadelphia School of the Bible, founding the Christian Stronghold Baptist Church in Philadelphia; the importance of developing training programs on evangelism, preaching, and family dynamics; the condition of the African American Evangelical community in the city; relations between black and white ministries and...
Dates: Created: 1998

Collection 431 Oral History Interviews with T. Michael Flowers

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Identifier: CN 431
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with T. Michael Flowers (1920-2015) in which he describes growing up in the Bahamas, the influence on his life of W. H. Farrington, his conversion, his evangelistic work in the Bahamas, his education in Scotland, a brief description of Billy Graham in Scotland in 1946, and the beginning of his evangelistic work in the United States. The second interview covers Flowers' ministry in Canada, Whitfield and B. M. Nottage, the Plymouth Brethren church and its church...
Dates: Created: 1990-1995

Collection 430 Papers of Tom Skinner

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Identifier: CN 430
Scope and Contents One oral history interview, articles, newsletters, clippings and other materials, relating to Skinner's life and the ministry of Tom Skinner Associates.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 5-2" means box 5, folder 2.]Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Tom Skinner, in which he describes his parents, youth, conversion to Christianity, theological...
Dates: Created: 1966-1990

Collection 386 Oral History Interview with Charles H. Dawson

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Identifier: CN 386
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Charles H. Dawson (1916-2000) in which he describes his family background; conversion; involvement in street preaching; jail ministry and other work in the Camden area; involvement in the work of the Afro-American Missionary Crusade; and philosophy of Christian work. Other topics discussed include Dawson's training at the New Jersey Bible School; street preaching; Montrose Waite; Dawson's trips to Africa from the 1960s through the 1980s; training African...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 368 Oral History Interview with Vera Mae Perkins

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Identifier: CN 368
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Vera Mae Buckley Perkins in which she discusses her family background, her education, the importance of her Christian faith, marriage to John Perkins, racial conditions in Mississippi and involvement in Civil Rights demonstration, and racial conditions in that state. Other topics discussed include her work as a migrant laborer and participation in Civil Rights protests that resulted in the integration of the school system in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The time...
Dates: Created: 1987

Collection 413 Oral History Interview with Matthew Parker

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Identifier: CN 413
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Matthew Parker in which he describes his childhood, family, education, conversion, study at Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music and work/study at Wheaton College, ministry with Campus Crusade in its sports ministry and with Overseas Crusades sports evangelism ministry (Venture for Victory w/ Bud Schaeffer), the 1984 and 1986 National Summits on Black Church Development, the Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America, the Afro-American community, white...
Dates: Created: 1989

Collection 515 Papers of Ernest Wilson

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Identifier: CN 515
Scope and Contents This collection contains an oral history interview with Ernest "Ernie" Wilson in which he describes his parents, his childhood in Panama, the evangelistic work of his father, his conversion as a young man, the experience of preaching, and his education at the Philadelphia Bible Institute and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary. Rev. Wilson was interviewed by Bob Shuster on March 22, 1995, at Wilson’s home in Philadelphia. The events described in the interview cover the time period 1911-1995....
Dates: Created: 1947-1995

Joseph C. Jeter Papers.

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Identifier: CN 532
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Joseph C. Jeter, who discusses his family and growing up, social and racial conditions in Philadelphia, education and employment, conversion and church involvement, first pastorate, limited missionary positions available to African Americans in White agencies, experience in Uganda and burden for missions, return to Uganda to survey mission stations staffed by African American missionaries, dire condition, and resulting burden to serve missionaries. Topics...
Dates: Created: 1983-1996

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Perkins, John, 1930- 3
Philadelphia College of the Bible. 3
American Sunday-School Union. 2
Campus Crusade for Christ. 2
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
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Have Christ Will Travel Ministries (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Jeter, Catherine E. 2
Jeter, Joseph C. 2
Nottage, B. M. 2
Skinner, Tom, 1942- 2
Waite, Montrose, 1891-1977. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) 2
Wilson, Ernie. 2
Africa Inland Mission. 1
African American Missionary Crusade. 1
Assemblies of God. 1
Athletes in Action (Organization) 1
Bailey, E. K. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Blue, Lloyd C. 1
Bob Jones University. 1
Boice, Edward H. 1
Brethren in Christ Church. 1
Bryan College. 1
Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993. 1
Carver Foreign Mission. 1
Center for Black Church Development (Detroit, Mich.) 1
Center for Urban Theological Studies (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Christian Committee of Concern. 1
Christian Stronghold Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 1
Dawson, Charles H.,, 1916- 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. 1
Evans, Tony, 1949- 1
Farrington, W. H. 1
Father Divine. 1
Flowers, Ella. 1
Flowers, T. Martin. 1
Flowers, T. Michael. 1
Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940. 1
Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music (Mich.) 1
Harlem Evangelistic Association. 1
Harrison, Bob. 1
Hill, E. V. (Edward Victor), 1933- 1
Institute for Black Family Development. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Langford, Sidney. 1
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
Lynch, Goodrich. 1
McQuilkin, J. Robertson, 1927- 1
Monrovia Bible Institute (Liberia) 1
Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
Nee, Watchman. 1
New Jersey Bible Training School. 1
Nottage, William. 1
OC International. 1
Pannell, William E. 1
Parker, Matthew, 1945- 1
Patterson, A. Louis, Jr. 1
Perkins, Vera Mae. 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
Religious Alliance Against Pornography. 1
Richardson, Willie, 1939- 1
Robertson, Cornelia Jones. 1
Schaeffer, Bud. 1
Short Terms Missionaries, Inc. 1
Southern Gospel Mission Association. 1
Sports Ambassadors. 1
Ten Boom, Corrie. 1
Triple C Bible Camp. 1
Triple C Bible Institute. 1
United Bible Conference. 1
United Missionary Conference. 1
Venture for Victory. 1
Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 1
Washington, Booker T., 1
Watford, Vernon C. 1
William Tyndale College (Farmington Hills, Mich.) 1
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