Odell Greenleaf Harris papers, 191u-1983 1980-1983.

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Odell Greenleaf Harris papers, 191u-1983 1980-1983.

The collection contains the manuscript copy of Harris' published autobiography, "It can be done" and associated personal and professional photographs of Harris. The collection also contains manuscripts by Harris about the history of the Episcopal Church among African Americans in Virginia, William Paschall Russell, and Harris' career from 1933-1963.

35 items.

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Bishop Payne Divinity School.

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Russell, William, 1830-1914

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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 ...

Harris, Odell Greenleaf, 1903-1983.

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African American Episcopal clergyman. Harris was warden and professor at the Bishop Payne Divinity School, Petersburg, Virginia 1937-1949; Archdeacon of Negro Work, Diocese of Southern Virginia, 1943-9151; Chaplain and director at the Fort Valley College Center 1951-1961; and Archdeacon of Colored Works, Diocese of Atlanta, 1951-1956. From the description of Odell Greenleaf Harris papers, 191u-1983 1980-1983. (Virginia Theological Seminary). WorldCat record id: 51894989 ...