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Milton Arthur Galamison and the New York School Boycott

August 9, 2021

"The Negroes and the Puerto Ricans have had it."

So wrote Graydon McClellan, executive presbyter of the Presbytery of New York, in a 1965 pastoral letter supporting the activism of one of its minister members, Milton Arthur Galamison, who had just led a march of students through Harlem in protest of the continued segregation of New York's public schools, and the subordinate treatment of Black and Puerto Rican children. 

"Mr. Galamison dramatically represents that fact. The people he leads are not out to win our favor or approbationbut to win educational rights for their...

Author: 
David S
Tags: 
African American History, Puerto Rican History, Civil Rights
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Our Work In The Archives, Second Quarter 2021

July 29, 2021

In between winter's renewed quaratine and the summer's burgeoning Delta variant, Americans returned to their restaurants, offices, and churches. Our constituents learned from a year of remote work and remote worship exactly how to administrate church work in a new way. And individual and group researchers looked for the pure stuff of remembrance and witness. All this and more shaped our work in the archives in the spring of 2021.

 

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Author: 
David S
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Quarterly Reports
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Jean Kim

July 12, 2021

Jean Kim, Presbyterian minister and tireless advocate for the homeless, died over the weekend of July 10-11. PHS recalls her work and ministry. 

Born in Korea in 1935, her family fled the north of the country in 1946. She completed a bachelor of Divinity at Han Shin Graduate School of Theology in 1959. Kim immigrated to the United States in 1970, and completed a Master of Social Work at St....

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David S
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AALC Records and Digitization

July 7, 2021
Documents in Gayraud Wilmore's collection from his work with Black Presbyterians United. [Pearl ID: 160325 and 160390]

The Presbyterian Historical Society needs your help to document African American lives, work, and witness in our increasingly multicultural Church.

Through the...

Author: 
David S
Tags: 
African American History, Digitization
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Toward Abolition

June 30, 2021
Duty officers raise their hands in prayer at a Washington for Jesus rally, 1980. Source: RNS photo in Pearl.

Beginning in earnest in the 1980s, some Presbyterians began to engage with policing, prisons, and imprisoned people with the aim to radically transform the administration of punishment in the United States, to truly make out of a system of prisons a system of justice. General Assembly actions have tended, however, to palliate any potential offense...

Author: 
David S
Tags: 
Peacemaking, Police
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