Egbert Ethelred Brown papers 1914-1956

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Egbert Ethelred Brown papers 1914-1956

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The collection consists of personal papers, material related to the Community Church of Harlem, and to the Jamaica Progressive League. Personal papers including certificates, sheet music with lyrics and melodies written by Brown, and an obituary and biography, 1914-1956; incoming letters showing Brown's numerous appeals for funds for his church, and other matters relating to his ministry, 1930s-1960s; Harlem Unitarian Church records consisting of by-laws, correspondence, marriage records, order of service records, prayer books, 1934-1955; and sermons, 1932-1955. Also, material related to the Jamaica Progressive League, a group that worked for the independence of Jamaica.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316848

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Harlem Unitarian Church (New York, N.Y.)

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Brown, Egbert Ethelred

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The Reverend Egbert Ethelred Brown was born in Falmouth, Jamaica, British West Indies, in 1875, the first of five children of James Alexander and Florence Adelaide Brown. While Brown was still a child, the family moved to Montego Bay, where Ethelred (he stopped using Egbert while still a youth) grew up. In 1894, at age 19, Ethelred placed third in an Island-wide civil service placement examination. In 1898, with a secure job, he married Ella Matilda Wallace, whom he had known since ...

Jamaica Progressive League

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