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60 Years Since '63: Newly Digitized March on Washington Records

August 14, 2023

Sixty years ago this month, over 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the endpoint of a massive protest march organized to draw attention to the Civil Rights Movement. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom may be most famous for serving as the backdrop of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic speech, best...

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McKenna

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Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections, Civil Rights

Get to Know PHS: Digitization

June 21, 2023

Organized in 1852, the Presbyterian Historical Society is the oldest denominational archives in the United States and serves as the national archives for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its predecessor denominations. Our collections are vast, but our robust digitization program—which preserves Presbyterian histories and congregation’s records—has made over 19,000 digital objects available online.

Accessing Presbyterian History Online

The Presbyterian Historical Society's digital collections, Pearl, is home to digitized and born-...

Author:

Kristen

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Get to Know PHS, Digitization

First African Presbyterian Church

June 5, 2023

We've recently helped appraise, pack, and transport original records out of the historic First African Presbyterian Church, now home to New River Presbyterian Church. Organized in 1807 by John Gloucester, First African is the mother congregation of Black Presbyterianism--the first Black Presbyterian congregation in the United States.

Gloucester was born into slavery in 1776 and was manumitted by the Presbyterian missionary...

Author:

David S

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African American Presbyterians, Digitization

Board of Foreign Missions Photographs

April 10, 2023

Pakistan, 1960. Pearl ID: islandora:339914

Now available in Pearl are images from the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations photograph collection (RG 223).

The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) was organized in 1837 with a self-described purpose of...

Author:

Allison

Tags:

Digitization, Pearl Digital Collections, Mission History

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