Newberry Library - Staff outside community house, Sharp Street Memorial Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1922?

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Open book Staff outside community house, Sharp Street Memorial Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1922?

Title Staff outside community house, Sharp Street Memorial Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1922?

Creator Methodist Episcopal Church. Committee on Conservation and Advance

Date 1922?

Place Maryland--Baltimore

Subjects African Americans, Community centers, Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970, Methodist Episcopal Church

Description Neg. H27818, slide 026. "Staff, Sharp St. Church"--Label accompanying slide. Note: These collection materials contain language or imagery that is offensive because of content relating to: ability, gender, race, religion, culture, sexuality/sexual orientation, or other categories. Library staff have retained the original language in order to present the materials in the context in which they were created and to facilitate historical research.

Summary From a set of lantern slides documenting the daily life of African Americans during the early years of the Great Migration from the rural American South, as well as outreach activities conducted by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) to assist them with finding work and social services. The first slides show scenes of Black sharecroppers picking cotton and processing sugar. Other slides show African Americans at work in northern cities. A majority of the slides show African American Methodist Episcopal church buildings in cities, such as Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., as well as community houses run by the MEC. Other slides show African Americans engaged in job training, such as sewing and dressmaking, and in worship and recreational activities.

Biographical/Historical Note Founded in 1784 by John Wesley, the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding until 1939. The anti-elistist and anti-slavery tenets of early Methodism appealed to many women and African Americans. After initally taking a neutral stance on slavery to avoid alienating Methodist churches in the South, the MEC formally declared its opposition to slavery at its 1860 General Conference. After supporting the Union during the American Civil War, the MEC sent missionaries to the South and played an active role in the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction. The Committee on Conservation and Advance was part of the MEC's mission and outreach branch. The MEC and the committee assisted African Americans from the rural South, who began to move to northern and western cities during the Great Migration, with social services and job training.

Format Lantern slides, Photographs

Archival Collection Title Negro in the City lantern slides, Society of Collectors

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Call Number E185.6 .M48 1922

BibID 9911626832205867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 10865px × 14092px 438.08 MB

Filename 9911626832205867_case_e_185_6 _m48_1922_000026_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL11C4AJ

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