Robert L. Johnson papers, 1952-2000.

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Robert L. Johnson papers, 1952-2000.

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The collection includes a scrapbook created by Robert L. Johnson primarily about the Reverend Charles Miles Jones, a Chapel Hill, N.C., minister involved in the civil rights movement. The scrapbook contains articles about Reverend Jones's removal from the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill, N.C., by the Orange Presbytery and other articles pertaining to clergy involved in the desegregation movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The collection also contains a dissertation by Andrew Niles McLean entitled "Collective Identity and Institutional Change in the Campus Ministry 1964-1973: Weaving the Cloak of Righteousness" (UCLA, 2000), which includes a chapter on Chapel Hill, and letters to Johnson, including two from Methodist bishops declining to become involved in the 1963 Speaker Ban debate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About 20 items (0.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7242167

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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North Carolina.

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Presbytery of Orange

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Presbytery erected, 1770 by the Synod of New York and Philadelphia; continued under the PCUSA after 1789; withdrew to the PCCSA in 1861; continued in the PCUS after 1865; continued in the PC(USA) after 1983. From the description of Minutes, 1866-1880 [microform]. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28201349 From the description of Minutes, 1951-1965 [microform]. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28201361 From the description o...

Johnson, Robert L. (Robert Leon), 1930-

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Robert L. Johnson (Robert L. Johnson Jr.) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1952. In 1954, he was ordained in the United Methodist Church. The following year, Johnson received a master of divinity degree from the Union Theological School in New York City, N.Y. He also received a master of theology degree from the Harvard Divinity School in 1968. In 1957, Johnson was hired as the director of the Wesley Foundation in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he served for 18 years. Fro...

Wesley Foundation (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

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Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church was located in Chapel Hill, N.C. From the guide to the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church Records, ., 1845-1885, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Wesley Foundation (University of North Carolina (1793-1962))

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993

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Charles Miles Jones, Christian minister and social justice activist, spent the majority of his ecclesiastical career in Chapel Hill, N.C., at the head of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church and then as the first minister of the Community Church. From the description of Charles Miles Jones papers, 1924-1990s. WorldCat record id: 57345643 Charles Miles Jones, a Christian minister and social justice activist, was born 8 January 1906 in Nashville, Tenn. He studied a...