Papers, 1899-1979 & 1958-1978. (bulk).

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Papers, 1899-1979 & 1958-1978. (bulk).

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Correspondence, writings, press releases, leaflets, pamphlets, bulletins, financial records, clippings, newsletters, calendars, reports, course materials, minutes, printed material, notes, pictures, tapes, and films, chiefly late 1950's-1978. The principal focus of the collection reflects Marney's professional career as a Baptist clergyman, serving two lengthy pastorates at First Baptist Church in Austin, Texas (1948-1958), and at Myers Park as Founder-Director of Interpreters' House, an ecumenical center of study and work (1967-1978). The Correspondence, Writings and speeches, and Engagements form the major groups in the collection. Reflected in the papers is information on rural poverty, the American Baptist Convention, the Baptist Church, especially in Texas and North Carolina, Christian writings, Abingdon Press, which published many of Marney's books, and prejudice. Other Topics and organizations represented include the Christian Century Foundation, the Church and Race Conference in Charlotte N.C., the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the President's National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, The Committee on Religion in Appalachia, and death of God Theology. A diary, 1954, describes Marney's trip to Korea and Japan. Prominent correspondents include James T. Cleland, William Sloan Coffin, Pope A. Duncan, Findley Edge, Harry Golden, William J. Kilgore, Martin Luther King, Jr., Karl Menninger, Bill Moyers, Guy Ranson, and Elton Trueblood.

45, 000 items (57.6 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Moyers, Bill D.

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Bill Moyers was born in Hugo, Oklahoma in 1934. He began his career in journalism at age sixteen as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger in Marshall, Texas. He went on to enroll at North Texas State College and study journalism, later transferring to continue his studies at the University of Texas at Austin. While there, Moyers wrote for the Daily Texan, UT’s student newspaper. He also married Judith Suzanne Davidson, with whom he eventually had three children. In 1956, he ...

Cleland, James T. (James Tough), 1903-1974

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Preacher, Dean of the Duke University Chapel (1955-1973), and Professor of Preaching in the Duke University Divinity School (1945-1968). From the description of James T. Cleland papers, 1825-1982 (bulk 1928-1975). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 53906090 James Tough Cleland was born on July 8, 1903 in Glasgow, Scotland to the Rev. James Cleland and Margaret Curdie Cleland. He married Alice Mean on September 7, 1932. Cleland earned degrees from Gla...

American Baptist Convention

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President's National Advisory Committee on Rural Poverty.

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Marney, Carlyle, 1916-1978

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Baptist minister and writer. He attended Carson-Newman College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. After seminary Marney served churches in Kentucky, Texas and North Carolina. In 1967 Marney founded in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina Interpreter's House, a retreat center for ministers and laypersons. Marney wrote over a dozen books all of which challenged the reader to live out the demands of the gospel in spite of traditional expectations. He died in 1978. From the description...

Christian Century Convention.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia –d. April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to M...

Trueblood, Elton, 1900-1994

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Dr. D. Elton Trueblood was a Quaker scholar, teacher and author born in Pleasantville, Iowa, in 1900. He graduated from William Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1922. He did graduate study at Harvard University and received his doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Guilford College, Harverford College and Stanford University, where he also served as chaplain. He surprised many people by giving up his professorship at Stanford to accept a job as professor of philosophy an...

Church and Race Conference (Charlotte, N.C.)

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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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The Faculty Club was organized by faculty members of the seminary for the purpose of cultivating social fellowship, and for keeping informed of the work and developments in theological education. The club published the BAPTIST REVIEW AND EXPOSITOR (later REVIEW AND EXPOSITOR). From the description of Faculty Club, 1951-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191916382 ...

Committee on Religion in Appalachia.

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Abingdon Press.

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Abingdon Press is a subsidiary of The United Methodist Publishing House. It was originally established in 1914 by the Methodist Episcopal Book Committee as the book publishing department of the Methodist Publishing House. The significance of the name Abingdon derived from the fact that it was also the name of a town in Maryland where Cokesbury College, the first Methodist college in the United States, was opened in 1787. Upon the unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Me...

Menninger, Karl A. (Karl Augustus), 1893-1990

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Noted psychiatrist, co-founder of the Menninger Clinic (Topeka, Kan.), author; of Topeka. From the description of Karl A. Menninger papers, [not after 1930-ca. 1963]. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 692811215 Psychiatrist and author. Died 1990. From the description of Karl A. Menninger correspondence, 1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984319 ...

Harry L. Golden

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Edge, Findley, 1916-

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Ranson, Guy, 1916-

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Kilgore, William J. (William Jackson), 1917-

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Coffin, William Sloan.

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Duncan, Pope A., 1920-

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