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Southern Baptist Convention. Sunday School Board. Executive Office. James Lenox Sullivan Papers, 1940-1981.

Title: James Lenox Sullivan Papers, 1940-1981.

The collection is the official papers of James L. Sullivan and the Executive Office of the Sunday School Board from 1954 to 1975 and includes information on all aspects of the work of the Board. The papers include extensive in-house and external correspondence with Board managers, denominational leaders and workers, Baptist ministers, state Baptist Convention leaders, political figures, and church members. The papers also include extensive complaint letters relating to all areas of the Board's programs. Information files include detailed files about the working of the Board's program. Included are minutes of staff and committee meetings; addresses and sermons; reports of all kinds; studies; budget and audit information; policy information; Baptist World Alliance material; and files on Board related controversies, including the Elliott controversy, the Broadman Bible Commentary, and the Becoming episode. The collection also deals with the issues of race relations, integration, and segregation that surfaced among Baptists in these three decades. Contained in the papers is material on bookstores, the book publishing program, clippings, files on the cooperative work with state Baptist conventions, curriculum matters, manuscripts, personnel issues, files on Trustees, and material related to the 30,000 movement. Files on various agencies of the SBC are a part of the papers.

ArchivalResource: 61 boxes (77 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663108253 View

Van Ness, Isaac Jacobus, 1860-1947. Papers, 1903-1944.

Title: Papers, 1903-1944.

The collection documents Van Ness's career at the Baptist Sunday School Board including his time as the editorial secretary and as the executive secretary and treasurer.The collection includes a large portion of Van Ness's correspondence as well as some photographs, reports, pamphlets, and other papers. Includes information about the Board's publications, events in the life of the Southern Baptist Convention and the various ministries of the Board.

ArchivalResource: 17 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164844822 View

Lee, Ernest Eugene, 1876-1962. Papers, [microform] 1908-1955.

Title: Papers, [microform] 1908-1955.

The collection consists primarily of programs, pamphlets, correspondence, and reports. It features a significant run of BYPU programs, important early pamphlets about BYPU organization and field work, and reports of field work. In addition, the collection includes correspondence, Sunday School Board business and policy materials, and covers Lee's denominational activities from 1908 to 1955. The major topics and issues included in the papers are: the early history and development of the Baptist Young People's Union, the Baptist Training Union, church work with youth, and the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Included in the correspondence files are letters from Baptist leaders such as: O.K. Armstrong, W.O. Carver, Corinne Byrd, W. A. Criswell, J.M. Frost, T.C. Gardner, W.A. Harrell, Brooks Hays, Jerry E. Lambdin, Blanche Linthicum, Clarence M. Managan, Helen McCullough (missionary to China), Perry Morgan, Joe B. Moseley, Henry Alford Porter, Edwin S. Preston, J.M Price, L.R. Scarborough, H.H. Snuggs (missionary to China), and George W. Truett.

ArchivalResource: 8 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/740896961 View

Van Ness, Isaac Jacobus, 1860-1947. Papers [microform], 1903-1944.

Title: Papers [microform], 1903-1944.

The collection documents Van Ness's career at the Baptist Sunday School Board including his time as the editorial secretary and as the executive secretary and treasurer.The collection includes a large portion of Van Ness's correspondence as well as some photographs, reports, pamphlets, and other papers. Includes information about the Board's publications, events in the life of the Southern Baptist Convention and the various ministries of the Board.

ArchivalResource: 39 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225082084 View

Lee, Ernest Eugene, 1876-1962. Collection, 1908-1955.

Title: Collection, 1908-1955.

The collection consists primarily of programs, pamphlets, correspondence, and reports. It features a significant run of BYPU programs, important early pamphlets about BYPU organization and field work, and reports of field work. In addition, the collection includes correspondence, Sunday School Board business and policy materials, and covers Lee's denominational activities from 1908 to 1955. The major topics and issues included in the papers are: the early history and development of the Baptist Young People's Union, the Baptist Training Union, church work with youth, and the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Included in the correspondence files are letters from Baptist leaders such as: O.K. Armstrong, W.O. Carver, Corinne Byrd, W. A. Criswell, J.M. Frost, T.C. Gardner, W.A. Harrell, Brooks Hays, Jerry E. Lambdin, Blanche Linthicum, Clarence M. Managan, Helen McCullough (missionary to China), Perry Morgan, Joe B. Moseley, Henry Alford Porter, Edwin S. Preston, J.M Price, L.R. Scarborough, H.H. Snuggs (missionary to China), and George W. Truett.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/739718982 View

Dehoney, William Wayne, 1918-2007. Collection, 1933-2005.

Title: Collection, 1933-2005.

The Dehoney Collection contains materials from Dr. Dehoney's tenure as president of the Southern Baptist Convention and as pastor of churches in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. The collection dates from 1933 until 2005, with the majority of the collection covering 1950-1985. The collection includes official papers, which are primarily of sermon notes, bound bulletins, correspondence, and clippings. Sermons are arranged alphabetically, and many sermon files contain a dictaphone recording and some sermons are on cassette tapes.

ArchivalResource: 102 boxes (60 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190589724 View

Allen, Clifton Judson, 1901-1986. Papers, 1924-1980.

Title: Papers, 1924-1980.

The papers cover his service as pastor, his work with the Board and his activities as recording secretary of the SBC. The collection includes sermons, extensive correspondence, administrative files, articles and writings of Judson, family information, biographical data, theological subject files, Baptist World Alliance material, information on Bible conferences, Bible notes, material related to the Broadman Bible Commentary, Sunday School curriculum information, subject files, criticisms of Board literature, denominational calendar committee files, foreign missions material, seminary class notes, international correspondence with theologians and Baptist leaders. Also includes information on the Interagency Council, International Council of Religious Education, Missionary Education Council, Life and Work curriculum, Hight C. Moore, National Council of Churches, race relations, Crusade for Christian Morality, Revised Standard Version of the Bible, and Tennessee and North Carolina churches.

ArchivalResource: 88 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44966361 View

Lambdin, J. E. (Jerry Elmer), 1889-1960. Collection, 1914-1973.

Title: Collection, 1914-1973.

The Jerry Elmer Lambdin Collection, a series of the Baptist Sunday School Board Records, consists of 12 linear ft. of material contained in 25 document boxes. The collection includes correspondence training union, lessons, convention programs, and speeches. Four boxes in the Lambdin Collection include material belonging to Lambdin's wife, Ina. The collection also contains audio recordings, photographs (including images from Lambdin's experience in Europe), scrapbooks, and museum artifacts.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75643644 View