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African American clergy -- 20th century -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Kilgore, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0381
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, drafts of sermons, church and personal correspondence and photographs of Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Los Angeles from 1963-1985 and a noted civil rights and civic leader. A subsequent accrual to the original collection includes a large number of plaques and awards, as well as audiovisual materials and ephemera.

Dates: 1935 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1998

Richard R. Wright Jr. films

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6204
Abstract The Richard R. Wright Jr. films comprise a collection of 13 moving images created circa the 1920s through the 1960s. Richard Robert Wright Jr. (1878-1967) was an African American sociologist, social worker, and minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Wright was married to Charlotte Crogman Wright, who authored a memoir relating to her travels throughout South Africa as the wife of a Methodist bishop, Beneath the Southern Cross (1955). Much of...
Dates: 1920 - 1960