Edwin McNeill Poteat Papers, . 1925-1956

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Edwin McNeill Poteat Papers, ., 1925-1956

Edwin McNeill Poteat Papers, . 1925-1956

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Poteat,Edwin_McNeill.html

Edwin McNeill Poteat was a Baptist preacher, teacher, and missionary in China, 1917-1929, author, president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1944-1948, and pastor at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, N.C., 1929-1937 and 1948-1955, and at Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1937-1944. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, mainly 1944-1955, and writings of Poteat. Included are letters, 1925-1929, discussing the Chinese nationalist movement and its effect on missionary work; correspondence with various religious and social action organizations, particularly concerning conscientious objection to World War I and interracial cooperation; and routine office correspondence. Also included are sermons, articles, speeches, and an unpublished book manuscript.

4,500; 6.0

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection