Reverdy C. Ransom collection, 1936-1975.

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Reverdy C. Ransom collection, 1936-1975.

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The collection contains material related to Reverdy C. Ransom from 1936-1975. The collection contains printed minutes and conference material related to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, particularly in Ohio and New England, reports and minutes from Wilberforce University, and a small amount of correspondence, photographs, and collected material. Much of the printed material in the collection was either edited by Ransom or contains information about him. Of particular interest is a 1942 letter from Bishop Richard R. Wright regarding Wilberforce University and segregation policies within college associations and fliers from the Imperial Agricultural Corporation, a cooperative centered in Hartford, Connecticut.

.5 linear ft. : (1 box)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8331256

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Wright, Richard R. (Richard Robert), 1878-

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Bishop Richard Robert Wright, the 57th bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was born on April 16, 1878 in Cuthbert, Georgia. He received degrees and/or studied at the following institutions: Georgia State University, A.B., 1898; University of Chicago, B.D., 1901 and A.M., 1904; University of Berlin, Germany, 1903; University of Leipzig, 1904 and University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1911. He served as editor of the Christian Recorder, business manager of the A.M.E. Book Concern, presid...

Wilberforce University

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Wilberforce University has its beginnings in a 28 Sept. 1853 meeting, during which the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church agreed to fund a coeducational college for African-American people of the state to be called Ohio African University and to be located in Tawas Springs, Ohio. Chartered as Wilberforce University in 1856, enrollment reached 207 people, and second year collegiate instruction was offered. Because of financial difficulties due to the Civil War (1861-1865), th...

Ransom, Reverdy C. (Reverdy Cassius), 1861-1959

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Editor, clergyman, writer, and bishop of the AME Church; earned B.D. (1886), D.D. (1898), and LL.D. (1912), Wilberforce University; ordained elder (1887) and consecrated bishop (1924) in AME Church; editor of AME Church Review (1912-1924); historiographer of AME Church (1948-1952). From the description of Reverdy Cassius Ransom papers, 1894-1950. (Wilberforce University). WorldCat record id: 70979005 Reverdy C. Ransom (1861-1959), 48th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcop...

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 ...