Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity project files, 1960-1970.

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Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity project files, 1960-1970.

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The series consists of project files of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity (ESCRU) from 1960-1970. The files include correspondence, reports, questionnaires, surveys, clippings, and printed material. Materials document activities of the ESCRU and include information on surveys to determine Episcopal schools admission policies; the Prayer Pilgrimage; surveys on the placement of Black clergy; picketing of the Lovett School (Atlanta, Ga.); picketing of the segregated St. Paul Episcopal Church (Selma, Ala.); the murder of Episcopal seminarian, Jonathan Myrick Daniels, subsequent trial and the development of Operation Southern Justice to appraise the public of southern injustices; the Southern Field Service Program designed to facilitate integration in Southern churches and communities; and clergy involvement in civil rights activities.

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Daniels, Jonathan Myrick, 1939-1965

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Jonathan Myrick Daniels (March 20, 1939 – August 20, 1965) was a civil rights activist. In 1965, he was killed by a special county deputy, Tom Coleman, in Hayneville, Alabama, while in the act of shielding 17-year-old Ruby Sales....

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 project files, 1960-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476461 ...

St. Paul Episcopal Church (Selma, Ala.)

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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 ...

Operation Southern Justice.

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