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Collection 432 Papers of Vernon C. Watford
Collection
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 365 Oral History Interview with Shirlene Walker Philips
Collection
Identifier: CN 365
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Shirlene Walker Phillips in which she discusses her childhood, education, hospital and clinic work, her work with Dolphus Weary and Voice of Calvary Ministries, and racial conditions in Mississippi, especially Mendenhall. The time period covered by the interview is 1956-1987.
Shirlene Phillips was interviewed by Paul A. Ericksen on June 18 and 19, 1987 at the office of Voice of Calvary Ministries, Jackson, MS.
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 375 Oral History Interview with Suzanne Griggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 375
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Suzanne Elizabeth Griggins (T3-T4) in which she describes her work as a lawyer at the Mendenhall Ministries Law Office, including examples of cases. Other topics discussed include: Griggins’ conversion and spiritual growth; political, legal, educational, racial and social conditions in rural Mississippi; voter registration; pastor Artis Fletcher; the Ku Klux Klan; and the church's response to injustice. The collection also includes an orientation session (T1-T2)...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 501 Oral History Interviews with Beverly Yates
Collection
Identifier: CN 501
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Beverly (Pannell) Yates in which she discusses her childhood in Michigan, family history, her brother (evangelist William Pannell), her conversion and spiritual growth, impact of B.M. Nottage on her life, work as a nurse, her ministry among women, Ruth Bentley, Melvin Banks, the black church in Chicago, the development of the Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference, and the Westside Holistic Center. The time period covered by the interviews is 1931-1994....
Dates:
Created: 1994
Collection 557 Oral History Interview with Bob Harrison
Collection
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
Collection
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 366 Oral History Interview with Lemuel Tucker
Collection
Identifier: CN 366
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lemuel Simpson Tucker (1952-1989)in which he describes his childhood and family, spiritual growth, education, leadership of Voice of Calvary Ministries (VOCM), John Perkins, VOCM's ministry in Jackson, Mississippi, evangelism in the African American community, Mendenhall Ministries, and racial conditions in Mississippi. Other topics discussed include the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's 1975 Deep South Crusade in Jackson; racism in America; the African...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 372 Oral History Interview with Judith Adams
Collection
Identifier: CN 372
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Judith Rachelle Whitthingham Adams about her childhood, her work with Genesis One Christian School, The Mendenhall Ministries, and the educational and racial conditions in Mississippi. The time period covered by the interview is circa 1960-1987.
Judith Adams was interviewed by Paul A. Ericksen on June 25 and 26, 1987, at the offices of Mendenhall Ministries in Mendenhall, MS.
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 370 Oral History Interview with Melvin R. Anderson
Collection
Identifier: CN 370
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Melvin R. Anderson in which he discusses his work with Voice of Calvary Ministries in Jackson, MS, particularly as director of Peoples Development Incorporated and its housing ministry to rennovate and make homes available to the economically disadvantaged in Jackson. Other topics discussed include Anderson's family background, education, racial integration of the public school system; boycott of white businesses, the influence of John and Vera Mae Perkins on...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 373 Oral History Interview with Dolphus Weary
Collection
Identifier: CN 373
Scope and Contents
Oral hisotry interview with Dolphus Douglas Weary, in which he describes his childhood, education and religious training in rural Mississippi, conversion, leadership in Voice of Calvary Ministries and Mendenhall Ministries, impressions of John Perkins, and racial conditions in Mississippi. The time period covered by the interview is 1948-1987.
Dolphus Weary was interviewed by Paul A. Ericksen on June 25, 1987 at the Mendenhall Ministries headquarters in Mendenhall, Mississippi.
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 386 Oral History Interview with Charles H. Dawson
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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 367 Papers of John Perkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 367
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview, video tapes, and promotional material, relating to the ministry of John Perkins, author, speaker, and founder and President Emeritus of Voice of Calvary Ministries.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with John PerkinsInterview with John Perkins in which he describes his childhood in rural Mississippi, his conversion, the formation of VOCM, its program and significant events and individuals in its...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1995
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- Christian life. 12
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- African Americans -- Religious life. 9
- Discrimination -- United States. 9
- Race relations. 9
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- Alcoholism -- United States 7
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- African Americans -- Missions. 6
- African Americans -- Segregation. 6
- Civil rights movements 6
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- Community development. 6
- Education -- United States. 6
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 6
- Evangelicalism. 6
- Christian education. 5
- Community development -- Mississippi. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Mississippi. 5
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- Names
- Perkins, John, 1930- 7
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 6
- Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 5
- Perkins, Vera Mae. 4
- Weary, Dolphus., 1946- 4
- Fletcher, Artis. 3
- American Sunday-School Union. 2
- Sports Ambassadors. 2
- Tucker, Lem. 2
- Adams, Judith. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- African American Missionary Crusade. 1
- Anderson, Melvin R., 1955- 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Athletes in Action (Organization) 1
- Banks, Melvin E., 1934- 1
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Blue, Lloyd C. 1
- Bob Jones University. 1
- Bryan College. 1
- Buckley, R. A. 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Center for Black Church Development (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference. 1
- Christian Committee of Concern. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Dawson, Charles H.,, 1916- 1
- Genesis One Christian School (Mendenhall, Miss.) 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music (Mich.) 1
- Griggins, Suzanne. 1
- Harrison, Bob. 1
- Have Christ Will Travel Ministries (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Institute for Black Family Development. 1
- Jeter, Catherine E. 1
- Jeter, Joseph C. 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
- Langford, Sidney. 1
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
- Mendenhall Bible Church (Miss.) 1
- Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
- National Black Evangelical Association. 1
- New Jersey Bible Training School. 1
- Nottage, B. M. 1
- Nurses Christian Fellowship (U.S.) 1
- OC International. 1
- Pannell, William E. 1
- Parker, Matthew, 1945- 1
- Philadelphia College of the Bible. 1
- Phillips, Shirlene Walker. 1
- Reagan, Ronald. 1
- Religious Alliance Against Pornography. 1
- Robertson, Cornelia Jones. 1
- Schaeffer, Bud. 1
- Short Terms Missionaries, Inc. 1
- Triple C Bible Camp. 1
- Triple C Bible Institute. 1
- Venture for Victory. 1
- Waite, Montrose, 1891-1977. 1
- Watford, Vernon C. 1
- Weary, Rosie. 1
- Westlawn Gospel Chapel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Westside Holistic Family Center (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 1
- William Tyndale College (Farmington Hills, Mich.) 1
- Yates, Beverly. 1
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