Southern California religious and fraternal collection, 1905-1922.

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Southern California religious and fraternal collection, 1905-1922.

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The collection contains materials collected by Leon F. Litwack relating to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and fraternal organizations in Southern California from 1905-1922. The original owner of the materials is unknown. The collection includes three record books. One details the conference proceedings of the Southern California district of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1907-1910. The book includes minutes, membership statistics, and financial information. A number of loose items were removed from the book and placed in a separate folder. A second record book in the collection documents the travel of a church official in Southern California. In addition to detailing weekly scripture passages, it records financial and membership information for each congregation visited from 1905-1908. The final record book contains minutes and financial records from 1921-1922 for the Western Light Lodge No. 31, an African American fraternal organization in Visalia, California. Other printed material in this collection have been cataloged.

3 bound v.

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8219202

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Litwack, Leon F.

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Leon F. Litwack was born in 1929 in Santa Barbara, California. He received a B.A. (1951) and Ph.D. (1958) from the University of California at Berkeley, where he also served as a professor in the History Department from 1965 to 2007. Litwack's scholarship focused on African-American history, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for his book, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. From the description of Leon F. Litwack collection of Berkeley, California, protest litera...

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 ...