Carolyn Owens Hervey collection, 1928-1982.

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Carolyn Owens Hervey collection, 1928-1982.

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The collection mostly contain church anniversary programs of some Little Rock Baptist and African Methodist Episcopal churches from 1945 to 1982, and Scipio A. Jones High School yearbooks and graduation exercise programs from 1932 to 1958. Scipio A. Jones (formerly known as the Argenta Colored School and Hickory Street School) was renamed Scipio A. Jones in 1928. The school, which was located in North Little Rock, Ark., closed in 1970.

0.5 cubic ft.

Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 7670874

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African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District

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Organized in 1816 from a congregation formed by a group of blacks who withdrew in 1787 from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination; Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop in 1816. From the description of African Methodist Episcopal Church collection, 1914-1971 (bulk 1950-1971). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962830 ...

Scipio A. Jones High School (North Little Rock, Ark.)

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Hervey, Carolyn Owens

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Carolyn Owens Hervey is a retired genealogist and local historian. She specialized in the African American family and slave genealogical research, having traced her own family back to the colonial and antebellum periods of American history. Hervey, who had previously worked part-time at the Arkansas History Commission, returned and worked from 1997 to 2007, before retiring from her position as Library Technical Assistant. She guided many African American genealogists through the complexities of ...