Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity national office records, 1960-1970.

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Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity national office records, 1960-1970.

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The series consists of records of the national office of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity (ESCRU) from 1960-1970. The records include correspondence from laity and clergy, newsletters, ESCRU publications, proposals, membership files, and reports. Major subjects documented by the materials include the Prayer Pilgrimage (1962), picketing at the Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia (1963), the Selma-Montgomery March (1965), the Atlanta riot (1966), Black Power (1968), and the Vietnam War (1966-1970). Notable correspondents include Albert Dreisbach, John Burnett Morris, Malcolm Boyd, Robert E. Hood, Henri Stines, and Bishop C. Edward Crowther. The series also contains correspondence, plays, and articles of Malcolm Boyd, a writer and lecturer who donated royalties from his plays to help fund the activities of the ESCRU.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Stines, Henri.

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Boyd, Malcolm, 1923-....

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Dreisbach, Albert.

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Crowther, C. Edward (Clarence Edward), 1929-

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Lovett School (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity (U.S.)

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The Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity was organized in 1958 to advocate racial unity in Episcopal Churches and their communities. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the society operated until 1970. From the description of Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity national office records, 1960-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476460 ...

Hood, Robert E. (Robert Earl), 1936-

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Morris, John Burnett, 1930-

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Executive Director for the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity; a co-editor, financial underwriter, promoter, and distributor of South Carolinians Speak, a collection of essays by respected civic leaders and active church people whom Rev. Morris recruited to write essays about desegregation and race relations. Rev. John B. Morris was born in Brunswick, Ga.; in 1951, he graduated from Columbia University; from 1951 to 1954, he attended the Virginia Theological...