African American churches -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Theonis K. Guyton Collection
Collection
Identifier: A3147
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised primarily of St. Louis civic and religious event programs and individual memorial service programs collected by Theonis Guyton during her service in many church and philanthropic organizations in the St. Louis African American community from 1948 to 2017. The bulk of the collection dates from 1993 to 2018. There are several notable date gaps: 1952-1953, 1955-1956, 1958-1962, 1966-1968, 1970-1973, 1976-1980, and 1989-1992. The collection is arranged...
Dates:
1946-2018; Majority of material found within 1993-2018
Ivan C. James, Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: A2234
Scope and Contents
The Ivan C. James, Jr. Collection consists of programs, annual reports, and booklets relating to the African-American community of St. Louis. Among the items is the Annual Report of the Annie Malone Children's Home, 1888-1958; a souvenir program celebrating the 100th anniversary of Antioch Baptist Church of St. Louis, 1979; and a reprinted edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's "The Negro Speaks," featuring essays by Dr. Martin Luther King, A. Philip...
Dates:
1948-1979
Charles Turner Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: A1657
Scope and Contents
The six scrapbooks in this collection contain newspaper clippings, programs, and handbills collected and mounted by Charles Turner, which reflect his interest in the status and affairs of African Americans in the St. Louis region and across the nation. The scrapbooks all contain overlapping dates and items from assorted sources. Some of the dominant themes in the scrapbooks include lynching, African American Republicans, the A.M.E. Church, Booker T. Washington, fraternal...
Dates:
1882-1918
Unemployed Citizens League Local No. 4 (Saint Louis, Mo.) Record Books
Collection
Identifier: A3143
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of blank letterhead and three bound notebooks containing records relating to the Unemployed Citizens League of St. Louis Local No. 4, some records for Local No. 1 and No. 11, and a blank application for the St. Louis Housewives’ League. The records are arranged alphabetically by title and date from 1933 to 1938. There are no records for 1936.
The three notebooks provide lists of children and families who received aid during the Great Depression in St....
Dates:
1933-1938