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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

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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 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon

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Identifier: CN 398
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 431 Oral History Interviews with T. Michael Flowers

 Collection
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 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 419 Oral History Interviews with Crawford W. Loritts, Jr.

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Identifier: CN 419
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Crawford Wheeler Loritts, Jr., in which he discusses his childhood; family; conversion; education at Philadelphia College of Bible; perception of racial conditions as he experienced them; evangelistic ministry; church planting projects with of Black Evangelistic Enterprise in Canton, Mississippi, and with Tony Evans in Dallas Other topics discussed include: American Missionary Fellowship; Tony Evans; Here's Life Black America;...
Dates: Created: 1989-1990

Collection 545 Papers of Jacqueline Huggins

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Identifier: CN 545
Scope and Contents One oral history interview, one videotape, one radio interview, one photograph, and prayer letters related to the ministry of Jacqueline Huggins, missionary and Bible translator with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Kagayanen people of the Philippines.The recordings, comprising the majority of the collection, consist of an oral history with Huggins (see detailed description which follows) and of the radio program Family Portraits segment hosted...
Dates: Created: 1985-1997

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

L. Nelson Bell Papers

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Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates: 1923-1973

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African Americans. 9
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Conversion. 8
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Missionaries. 7
Christian leadership. 6
Church and social problems. 6
Family. 6
Race relations. 6
Racism -- United States. 6
Racism. 6
African Americans -- Missions. 5
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 5
Alcoholism -- United States 4
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Race relations. 4
Bible colleges 4
Church and social problems -- United States. 4
Discrimination -- United States. 4
Discrimination. 4
Evangelicalism. 4
Missionaries -- Training of. 4
Missions -- Study and teaching. 4
African American missionaries. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Church development, New. 3
City missions. 3
Community development. 3
Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
Missions -- Congresses. 3
Preaching. 3
Women 3
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Women missionaries. 3
African American clergy. 2
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Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
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Missions -- Philippines. 2
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African American leadership. 1
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African Americans -- Education. 1
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Catholic Church -- United States. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 1
Child abuse -- United States. 1
Child abuse. 1
Children -- Religious life. 1
Children of missionaries. 1
Children. 1
Chinese -- Missions. 1
Chinese. 1
Christian education -- Canada. 1
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Christian education of children. 1
Christian education, Outdoor. 1
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Philadelphia College of the Bible. 4
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
Perkins, John, 1930- 3
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
Bright, Bill. 2
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Evans, Tony, 1949- 2
Have Christ Will Travel Ministries (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Jeter, Catherine E. 2
Jeter, Joseph C. 2
Skinner, Tom, 1942- 2
Waite, Montrose, 1891-1977. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) 2
Africa Inland Mission. 1
African American Missionary Crusade. 1
American Missionary Fellowship. 1
American Sunday-School Union. 1
Armerding, Hudson T. 1
Assemblies of God. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Black Evangelistic Enterprise. 1
Bob Jones University. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
Carver Foreign Mission. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Church, Donald Lee, 1934-2020. 1
Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 1
Dawson, Charles H.,, 1916- 1
Destiny, Inc. 1
Farrington, W. H. 1
Father Divine. 1
Fletcher, Artis. 1
Flowers, Ella. 1
Flowers, T. Martin. 1
Flowers, T. Michael. 1
Fort Wayne Bible College (Ind.) 1
Gordon, Wayne. 1
Harrison, Bob. 1
Hendrix, Olan. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Here's Life Black America. 1
Huggins, Jacqueline. 1
Institute for Black Family Development. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Langford, Sidney. 1
Lawndale Community Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Loritts, Crawford W. 1
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
McQuilkin, J. Robertson, 1927- 1
Mendenhall Bible Church (Miss.) 1
Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 1
Monrovia Bible Institute (Liberia) 1
Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
New Jersey Bible Training School. 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 1
Nottage, B. M. 1
Nottage, William. 1
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
Pannell, William E. 1
Perkins, Vera Mae. 1
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 1
Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Robertson, Cornelia Jones. 1
Short Terms Missionaries, Inc. 1
Southern Gospel Mission Association. 1
Sports Ambassadors. 1
Ten Boom, Corrie. 1
United Bible Conference. 1
United Missionary Conference. 1
Vaus, Jim. 1
Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 1
Weary, Dolphus., 1946- 1
Weary, Rosie. 1
Wilson, Ernie. 1
World Council of Churches. 1
World Vision International. 1
World Wide Pictures, Inc. 1
Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
Zhongguo guo min dang. 1
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