Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries Records

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries Records

Inclusive Dates

1954-1970

Call Number

RG 288

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries.

Quantity

0.75 cubic feet (1 box)

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. Medical, educational, and psychological records of living people are closed.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

At the request of the General Assembly of 1954 the Moderator appointed a committee to work in consultation the Stated Clerk to confer with synods and presbyteries organized along racial and cultural lines concerning their integration into synods and presbyteries in the same geographical area. In 1962 the General Assembly reorganized the committee and charged it with the task of presenting a report to the next Assembly with recommendations as to how the middle judicatories could be brought into conformity with the pronouncements of the General Assembly concerning segregation.

Collection Overview

These records consist of the committee secretaries' files of correspondence, minutes and reports dealing with the merging of segregated synods and presbyteries and regular synods and presbyteries. The segregated synods and presbyteries were African American and Native American governing bodies and the old German-speaking Synod of the West. The secretaries of the committee were C. Morton Hanna and Robert C. Lamar. There is correspondence of Eugene Carson Blake and William P. Thompson, Stated Clerks.

Organization and Arrangement

Record Group 288 is arranged as follows:

SERIES I: Reports to General Assembly, 1963-1967

SERIES II: Secretaries' Correspondence, 1954-1966

SERIES III: Secretaries' Correspondence (Arranged by Synods and Presbyteries), 1954-1970

SERIES IV: Miscellany, 1962

Researchers should be aware that the same topics are treated both in the files of the secretaries and in the records filed by synod and presbytery.

Administrative Information

Processing Information

Collection processed and finding aid prepared: May 1992
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist, Philadelphia

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Corporate Subject

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries.

Topical Subject

African American Presbyterians.

German Americans--Religion.

Indigenous peoples of North America--Religion. local

Segregation--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church.

Genre-form

Correspondence. aat

Minutes (administrative records) aat

Reports. aat

Corporate Added Name

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Stated Clerk (1951-1958 : Blake)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Stated Clerk (1958-1965 : Blake)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Stated Clerk (1965-1983 : Thompson)

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description
1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 288

		Series I: Reports to General Assembly, 1963-1967

1	2	Reports, 1963-1967

		Series II: Secretaries' Correspondence, 1954-1966

		C. Morton Hanna
1	3	Correspondence, 1954-1959
1	4	Correspondence, 1960-1962

		Robert C. Lamar
1	5	Correspondence, 1962
1	6	Correspondence, 1963 Correspondence, 1964
1	7	Correspondence, 1965
1	8	Correspondence, 1966

		Series III: Secretaries' Correspondence, (Arranged by Synods and Presbyteries), 1954-1970

1	9	Synod of Blue Ridge and Synod of Mid-South, 1954-1964
1	10	Synod of Catawba and Synod of Baltimore, 1959-1961
1	11	Synod of Florida and Synod of Atlantic, 1955-1959
1	12	Synod of the West and Synod of Iowa, 1954-1957
1	13	Synod of Oklahoma (Choctaw Presbytery) and Synod of Canadian, 1954-1955
1	14	Synod of South Dakota and Presbytery of Dakota, 1959-1961
1	15	1962-1964
1	16	1965
1	17	1966-1970

		SERIES IV: Miscellany, 1962

1	18	"Exploration of United Presbyterian Work in the Southeast," Forms and Discussion Guide, 1962

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Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Committee on Segregated Synods and Presbyteries Records

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