Material from the Indiana Civil Rights Commission as found in the Mennonite Church Committee on Economic and Social Relations collection includes statistical information on Indiana higher education and African Americans, aspects of Sundown...
Using personal interviews, Goshen College student Ruth (Eigsti) Miller wrote a paper on attitudes of different occupational groups regarding African Americans specifically in Goshen, Indiana.
Black Mennonites from Africa and the United States convened during Mennonite World Conference in 1972 to discuss their further relationship and decided to meet for a conference in 1973 called the African Afro-America Inter-Mennonite Unity...
Included here are materials on Mennonite and race relations such as ministry to the Delta Area in Mississippi, transcript of a Board of Christian Service meeting (involving Esko Loewen, Robert Kreider, Vincent Harding and J. W. Fretz among others),...
Mennonite Board of Missions drafted an open letter to the Elkhart community regarding racial conflict, circulated it among its staff and suggested some possible action.
Included here are the minutes and reports of the Mennonite Church Afro-American Mennonite Association from 1983 to 1984 which was later renamed the African-American Mennonite Association.
Contents: Introduction / Julie Garber -- Sacrificing the sacrifices of war / Stanley Hauerwas -- Waging peace, achieving justice: understanding nonviolent struggle / Mary King -- Making peace through peaceful means / Robert C. Johansen --...
Included here are materials on Mennonites and racial issues, such as a report on the Camp Landon unit, and an issue of The Mennonite Church in the City.
Included in these Minority Ministries Council race education materials are guidelines for the Compassion Fund, definitions and goals for the education program (educating white congregations about racial confict).
Recommendations presented to the General Conference meetings by the Executive Secretary of the Urban-Racial Council. Also the text of the Resolution on Urban-Racial Concerns that concludes: "5. We charge the Committee on Peace and Social...
"The purpose of today' s meeting is to inquire of our colored brethren what in their mind should be the role of the Mennonite churches in the current racial revolution...." "Inasmuch as the purpose of the meeting is to seek the...
Includes material from the Mennonite Church Negro Evangelism Committee, as well as meeting on race in 1959 at Woodlawn Mennonite Church including addresses by Jacob Loewen, Ralph Abernathy, Vincent Harding and J. D. Graber. Included are also...
Materials on the Mennonite Conference on Race Relations held in 1964 include program notes and papers by Guy F. Hershberger, Grant M. Stoltzfus, Harold R. Regier, Linden M. Wenger, Vincent Harding and Sarah Patton Boyle.
