Perkins, Vera Mae.
Biographical notes:
African American Christian worker, wife of John Perkins; born in 1930s in Mississippi; worked with other family members as a migrant worker during her childhood; married John Perkins; 1951; returned to Mississippi, 1960; with her husband, co-founded Voice of Calvary, a community-based ministry and development program in Mendenhall, 1964, which later moved to Jackson; co-founded Harambee Christian Family Center in Pasadena, CA, 1982.
From the description of Oral history interview with Vera Mae Perkins, 1987. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 31200259
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Subjects:
- Education
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Christianity and justice
- Christianity and politics
- Christian leadership
- Christian life
- Church and social problems
- Church work with youth
- Civil rights movement
- Conversion
- Discrimination
- Discrimination
- Evangelicalism
- Evangelistic work
- Persecution
- Poverty
- Race relations
- Racism
- Reconciliation
- Self-acceptance
- Women
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- United States (as recorded)
- Mendenhall (Miss.) (as recorded)
- Mississippi (as recorded)
- Mississippi--Jackson (as recorded)
