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Title
Men in reading room, Scott Memorial Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1922?
Creator
Methodist Episcopal Church. Committee on Conservation and Advance
Date Created
1922?
Subjects
African Americans
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Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970
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Methodist Episcopal Church
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Reading rooms
Description
Neg. H27820, slide 027. "Reading room, Scott Memorial, Detroit"--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. Title derived from: Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, “Mission Photograph Album - Negro #4 page 0063,” UMC Digital Galleries,
https://catalog.gcah.org/images/items/show/50612
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-elitist and anti-slavery tenets of early Methodism appealed to many women and African Americans. After initially 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
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Photographs
Archival Collection Title
Negro in the City lantern slides
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Society of Collectors
Rights Status
No Copyright - United States
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Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
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Call Number
E185.6 .M48 1922
BibID
9911626832205867
IIIF Resource Type
Manifest
IIIF Resource ID
https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSUZ8Y9T
Original File Name
9911626832205867_case_e_185_6 _m48_1922_000027
Unique identifier
NL11C4KH
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