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

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

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The series consists of chapter files of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity from 1960-1970. The files include correspondence, minutes, member rolls, newsletters, and press releases. The materials document the activities and concerns of the various chapters including discrimination in schools, housing, and employment; the Delta Ministry; the Selma Interreligious Project (Ala.); Prayer Pilgrimage; the Lovett School (Atlanta, Ga.); Coordinating Council of Community Organizations; All Saints Church; Jonathan Myrick Daniels; and Black power.

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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. When twenty ESCRU members in a diocese convened they could establish a chapter; Chicago (Ill.), New York (State), New York (city), and Boston (Mass.) formed the largest chapters. From the description of Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity ...

Delta Ministry

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The Delta Ministry was organized by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America in 1964 to provide missionary relief to the Mississippi Delta region. From the description of Delta Ministry records, 1964-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476445 From the description of Delta Ministry collection, 1963-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476440 From the description of Delta Ministry staff files, 1964-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat r...

Lovett School (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (Chicago, Ill.)

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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 ...