Office of Black Church Studies records, 1968-2013

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University. Office of Black Church Studies
Abstract:
The Office of Black Church Studies (initially the Office of Black Church Affairs) was created as an initiative of the Duke Divinity School in 1972 to support African American students and faculty. The collection consists of materials related to African American churches, civil rights, and the status of African American students and faculty in universities across the country. Materials related to Martin Luther King, Jr.; Benjamin Chavis; Gardner C. Taylor; and Prathia Hall Wynn are included. The collection also contains manuscripts, black-and-white and color photographs, digital images, and electronic records contained on compact discs.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
UA.19.05.0001
University Archives Record Group:
19 -- Divinity School
19 -- Divinity School > 05 -- Office of Black Church Studies

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of materials related to African American churches, civil rights, and the status of African American students and faculty in universities across the country. Contains materials related to Martin Luther King, Jr.; Benjamin Chavis; Gardner C. Taylor; and Prathia Hall Wynn. Some items relate to Black Church Studies at other academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and churches. The collection includes manuscripts, black-and-white and color photographs, digital images, and electronic records contained on compact discs. Also contains publications that predate the creation of the office.

Biographical / historical:

The Office of Black Church Studies (initially the Office of Black Church Affairs) was created as an initiative of the Duke Divinity School in 1972. The office was established to support African American students and faculty in the Divinity School and sustain a specific curriculum on the Black preaching tradition and the Black community's experience with Christianity.

The Office of Black Church Studies outlines its mission as follows:

"The Office of Black Church Studies (OBCS) enriches the work and witness of Duke Divinity School with theological and spiritual resources from Black Church contexts. We teach, research, publish, and create experiences to nurture effective leaders for the church, the academy, and the world. Drawing from intellectual and empirical resources of Africa and the African Diaspora, we strengthen the vocation of the school and the mission of the university to impact congregations, organizations, and societies locally and globally. OBCS helps to form good and faithful leaders through curricula, lectures and relationships with congregations, denominations, organizations and networks."

Source: https://divinity.duke.edu/formation/houses-of-study/black-church-studies, accessed December 8, 2023

Acquisition information:
The Office of Black Church Studies records were received by the University Archives as a transfer in January, 2014.
Processing information:

Processed by: Patrick Dollar, October 2014

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

Finding aid updated by April Blevins, December 2023.

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Correspondence, Events, Committees and Organizations, Administrative Files, Articles and Publications, and Visual Materials. Correspondence is organized chronologically. Other series are primarily organized alphabetically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
African American graduate students -- North Carolina -- Durham
Theological seminaries -- United States
Students, Black -- North Carolina
Pastoral theology -- Study and teaching
African American clergy -- North Carolina
Blacks -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Durham
Theology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina
African American students -- North Carolina -- History -- Archival resources
African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Durham
African American college students -- North Carolina -- Durham
African American college students
African American students -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Social life and customs
Clergy -- Post-ordination training
African American preaching
African American Christian educators
Format:
Compact discs
Clippings (information artifacts)
Photographic prints
Names:
Duke University -- History
Duke University. Divinity School -- History
Duke University. Divinity School -- Students
Duke University. Divinity School -- Faculty
Duke University. Divinity School
Duke University -- Administration
Education, Higher -- North Carolina -- History
Duke University. Divinity School -- Lectures, seminars, etc. -- Symposium on Christian Missions, 1958
Duke University -- Curricula
Duke University. Office of Black Church Studies
Duke University. Office of Black Church Affairs
Taylor, Gardner C
Chavis, Ben
Wynn, Prathia Hall
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Contents

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Restrictions:

Access restricted. Some materials in this collection are Duke University administrative materials. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the office of origin and the University Archivist is required for use of administrative records. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the University Archivist. Contact Research Services for more information.

Access restricted. Some materials in this collection include student records. In accordance with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 as amended, Duke University permits students to inspect their education records and limits the disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records. Contact Research Services for more information.

Access restricted. Some materials in this collection are personnel records. Records pertaining to employment where individuals are identified are closed for 70 years.

Access note. Some materials in this collection are electronic records that may need to be reformatted. Access copies of electronic records require special equipment. Contact Research Services for access.

Terms of access:

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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[Identification of item], Office of Black Church Studies Records, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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