Publications, Studies, and Scrapbook, 1947-1961.

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Publications, Studies, and Scrapbook, 1947-1961.

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This collection contains publications, studies, and a scrapbook of the Division of American Missions' Church Work in Negro Communities program (1950-1955); Office for Intercultural Outreach (1956-1961); and Office for Human Relations (1962-1966). Publications include study reports prepared by office field workers Thelma Tollefson and Anna V. Larson concerning intercultural ministry activities and needs in areas of the U.S.; a bibliography on race relations for pastors and laymen (1958); and booklets and papers concerning criteria for determining the effectiveness of churches (1959), and the work of the Lutheran church in interracial communities. Also included is a Negro Missions scrapbook (1947-1957) which contains news clippings, articles, addresses, booklets, and church publications regarding the activities. And status of African Americans in the U.S. The scrapbook also contains material concerning Lutherans' ministry to African Amerincans. Many of the news clippings contained in the book are from Chicago (Illinois) newspapers. It is unclear who compiled the scrapbook.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Larson, Anna

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National Lutheran Council. Office for Intercultural Outreach.

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Tollefson, Thelma.

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National Lutheran Council. Division of American Missions. Office for Human Relations.

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The National Lutheran Council (NLC) was formed on September 6, 1918 as a common agency of participating Lutheran church bodies to administer domestic programs, publicize Lutheran activities and beliefs, and provide overseas emergency relief to areas devastated by World War I. In 1951, the NLC's Division of American Missions took over the sponsorship and cultivation of the American Lutheran Church and Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church's mission work in and for African American ch...

National Lutheran Council. Church Work in Negro Communities.

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