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Ransom, Reverdy C. (Reverdy Cassius), 1861-1959. Reverdy Cassius Ransom papers, 1894-1950.

Title: Reverdy Cassius Ransom papers, 1894-1950.

Typescripts, transcripts, and news clippings of literary efforts by Ransom. Writings include poems, speeches, sermons. Titles include preface to History of the AME Church; The Disadvantages and opportunities of colored youth (1894); The Industrial and social condition of the Negro (1896); and The Spirit of John Brown (1906). Other materials include correspondence as historiographer; correspondence as bishop; reports and minutes of the Bishops Council; constitution, reports, press releases, programs, publications, statements, working papers, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to the National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches (1945-1950); World Council of Churches reports; AME Church documents pertaining to court cases, Baltimore Annual Conference, and other conferences; issues of the AME Review; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979005 View

Ransom, Reverdy C. (Reverdy Cassius), 1861-1959. Reverdy C. Ransom collection, 1936-1975.

Title: Reverdy C. Ransom collection, 1936-1975.

The collection contains material related to Reverdy C. Ransom from 1936-1975. The collection contains printed minutes and conference material related to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, particularly in Ohio and New England, reports and minutes from Wilberforce University, and a small amount of correspondence, photographs, and collected material. Much of the printed material in the collection was either edited by Ransom or contains information about him. Of particular interest is a 1942 letter from Bishop Richard R. Wright regarding Wilberforce University and segregation policies within college associations and fliers from the Imperial Agricultural Corporation, a cooperative centered in Hartford, Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. : (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85016105 View

Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Title: Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Papers of American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and his family.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)

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Allen, Alexander Joseph, 1884-1956. African Methodist Episcopal Church programs and conference publications, 1909-1958.

Title: African Methodist Episcopal Church programs and conference publications, 1909-1958.

The collection contains A brief history of the origin and organization of the A.M.E. Church of Bellefonte, Pa. (1909); St. Paul's A.M.E. Church, Bellefonte, Pa. typed program (6 June 1937); Souvenir program, 82nd annual session of the Pittsburgh Annual Conference (St. James A.M.E. Church, 1949); Program of the Scranton District Conference (St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1958); Annual conferences of the Third Episcopal District, A.J. Allen presiding bishop (Cleveland, Oh., 1953). Also, two African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bureau of Research and Publicity publications by Reverdy C. Ransom: Authoritative facts and figures about the Negro past, their paradoxical position in America today and a prophecy concerning their future, Bulletin number five (Feb. 1944), and Christianity, the church and the episcopacy; a factual statement on the economic status of the Negro; the church speaks to the world, Bulletin number three (Feb. 1942).

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50033125 View