Will Herzfeld papers 1964-1990

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Will Herzfeld papers 1964-1990

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The Will Herzfeld Papers are divided into Personal Papers, Correspondence, and materials related to Herzfeld's clerical as well as secular professional activities. Personal Papers includes schedules, invitations, press relases and news clippings by and about Reverend Herzfeld, information about the Tuscaloosa boycott, and three speeches, 1964-1989. The bulk of correspondence is administrative and business in nature, and primarily between Herzfeld and Lutheran bodies, 1967-1984. The material in the series Professional Activities--Clerical, consists of memorial and anniversary journals of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, church programs and bulletins of forums in which Herzfeld participated and material regarding the 1988 merger of the three Lutheran churches. The contents of the series, Professional Activities--Secular, encompass programs of secular forums in which he took part, as well as a final communique, press statement, draft appeal, schedule, and report on the meeting of youth and students from the International Conference-Dialogue for Disarmament and Detente.

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

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Herzfeld, Will Lawrence, 1937-

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Will L. Herzfeld, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Oakland, California since 1973, was the first African-American bishop to head a Lutheran denomination in the United States. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Herzfeld was enrolled in Lutheran schools beginning at the elementary level and attended the Alabama Lutheran Academy in Selma and graduated with an Associate degree in Arts in 1957 from Immanuel Lutheran College of the Missouri Synod in Greensboro, North Carolina. He further purs...

Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Oakland, Calif.)

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