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IV-21
Mennonite Board of Missions
Minority Ministries Council,
1969-74, 1997-99
8
Boxes (2 Gray, 2 Green, 3 Oversize, 1 Large)
Table of
Contents
Series and Box Listing
Page 1
Administrative Information
Page 1
Historical Sketch
Page
2
Inventory Listing
Pages
3-7
Appendix 1: Council Meetings,
1968-73
Page 8
Appendix 2: Timeline, 1910-1997
Pages 9-20
Series and Box
Listing
.1 Urban-Racial
Concerns, Statement 1969
Box 1 (Gray)
.2 Minutes, 1968-1974
Box 1 (Gray)
.3 Assorted
Program and Historical files, plus
Photographs
and Audiovisual
Materials,
1970-71, 1997-99 Boxes 1-2 (Gray)
Boxes
3-5 (Oversize)
.4
Official Files, 1969-74, John Powell,
Executive Secr.
2 Boxes (Green)
.5
Education Program, 1970-73, Lynford
Hershey
1 Box (Large)
Administrative
Information
The first box of materials, which
included the 1969 statement, and minutes, was cataloged into the
archives by
the archivist in 1972 (Accession #2254).
The two boxes of John Powell's
official records were transferred to the
archives by Ethel Hoffman, Mennonite Board of Missions, Elkhart,
Indiana, in
1985 (Accession #4538). The box of
Lynford Hershey's education program records were deposited into the
archives by
Hubert Schwartzentruber, Mennonite Board of Congregational Ministries,
Elkhart,
Indiana, in 1985 (Accession #4688).
Additional audiovisual materials,
minutes, correspondence and reports, was deposited by Barbara Eichorn,
Mennonite Board of Missions, Elkhart, Indiana in 2002.
Many of these materials came from the
1997 Reunion of the Council.
(Accession #7238, 1 Gray Box, 2
Oversize Boxes, July 17, 2006 / des). Two
phonograph records were donated by
Sefernia De León, Goshen,
Indiana,
in 2007 (Accession # 7296, August
9, 2007 1 Oversize File / des).
Historical
Sketch
1968 Urban
Racial Council formed October 4: Executive Comm. composed
of Lee Roy Berry, Gerald Hughes, Hubert Schwartzendruber, John Powell
and John
Ventura.
1969
John Powell appointed Executive
Secretary, June 7
1974
John Powell resigns, June
1974
Jose Ortiz appointed Associate
Secretary for Hispanic
Concerns
1976
Dwight McFadden appointed General
Secretary for Black
Concerns
1982
Joy Lovett becomes Associate Secretary
for Black
Concerns
1982
Samuel Hernandez becomes Associate
Secretary for
Hispanic Concerns
1988
Associate Secretary positions
eliminated at Mennonite
Church General Board
1991
Urban Ministry Network initiated
through Mennonite
Board of Missions, Evangelism and Church Development.
“Beginning Time Line”
provided by Hubert L. Brown, Historian (1997)
Inventory
Box 1 (Gray)
.1 Urban-Racial
Concerns, 1969
1/1
Statement “Urban-Racial Concerns”,
August 19, 1969, Mennonite
General Conference, Turner, Oregon,
and correspondence about an Urban-Racial Council. (Includes
documentation on "Black
Manifesto," written by James Forman, and delivered in Detroit,
Michigan,
April 26, 1969)
.2 Minutes,
1968-1974
1/2
Minutes, 1968-74, including first
meeting held at Cleveland,
Ohio, July 27, 1968, under the name of “Urban Racial Planning
Committee”, with
Gerald Hughes (Chair), Warner Jackson and Vern Miller.
Last meeting in this set of minutes is
at Chicago, Illinois,
April 12, 1974, under name of “Minority Affairs Committee”, with Leslie
Francisco, Ted Chapa, Warner Jackson and Lupe De Leon, Jr.
(Copy of original set found with
Mennonite
Church General Board Files, I-6-5, Minority Ministry Council Minutes,
1968-74)
1/3
Minutes, 1968-74 (Binder) (Compiled
and assembled by Hubert L.
Brown)
.3 Assorted
Program and Historical Files, plus Photographs and Audiovisual
Materials,
1970-74, 1997-99
1/4
Compassion Fund, 1970.
Brochure entitled “Programs and
Projects approved for Compassion Funds,”
May 1970 (included 8 projects totalling $97,410.) Also
“the minority WHAT?”
1/5
High-Aim Program, 1971.
Scholarship Program for minority
high-school students, brochures
1/6
Notebook, Minority Ministries Council,
1968-73 (Working
notebook of John Powell; most material dates from 1970-71)
Box 2 (Gray)
2/1
The Urban Mission: A
Cloud of Anabaptist Witnesses,” 1993 (photocopy only)
2/2
A historical time line
of minority and urban ministry in the United States, 1910-1997,
Minority
Ministries Council and Ubran Leaders Network, Mennonite Board of
Missions,
Evangelism and Church Development, Roma J. Miller, 1997 (photocopy only)
2/3
Reunion,
1997. Includes program, July 27-28, 1997,
Orlando
’97, Orlando, Florida with time line, 1940-1991;
and Reunion Directory of Minority Ministries
Council and Urban Ministry Network
2/4
Display, ca. 1969-74 (photocopy)
(Original found as Oversize
item, Box 3)
.3 Assorted
Program and Historical Files, plus Photographs and Audiovisual
Materials,
1970-74, 1997-99 (Continued)
Box 2 (Gray) (Continued)
2/5
"Happenings”
newspaper, published by MBM
Minority Ministry Council, November 19, 1971, June 28, 1972, December
5, 1972,
July 1974 (photocopies) (Originals are with oversize, Box 3)
2/6
Photograph Album, 1969-74, Minority
Ministries Council
(compiled by Hubert L. Brown's photographs)
2/7
Cassette tapes, ca. 1973-74.
Cassette Tape # 1: "Praises"
(1971) as sung by The Mennonaires, with Eugene Norris
as Director, Betty Toney as President and Keith Taylor as Secretary"
(1971)
- cassette tape of album produced by Minority Ministries Council ca.
1974.
Original phonograph recording
found as Hist. Mss. 9-4, and found in IV-16-21, #4, Box 4 Oversize.
Cassette Tape # 2: Side 1 "Everything
is Beautiful," by The Lawndale
Choir / Church" (May 24, 1972), Side 2 "Be a Christian,"
by Barbara Sowell (1970), cassette tape of
albums produced by Minority Ministries Council, ca. 1974.
Original phonograph recording of
"Everything is Beautiful" found in Box 5 Oversize, / File 3.
Original phonograph recording of
"Be a Christian" has not been located, but this file includes
documentation on the album.
Box 3 (Oversize) (Flat folder)
(Row 44, C1, S1)
3/1
Display, ca. 1969-74.
A
variety of photographs and newspaper clippings pasted onto a display
board,
which probably hung in the office
Assembled and designed by Helen Brown,
1974.
3/2
"Happenings”
newspaper, published by MBM
Minority Ministry Council, November 19, 1971, June 28, 1972, December
5, 1972,
July 1974 (Originals; each newspaper page is laminated)
Box 4 (Oversize) (Round tube)
(Row 44, C1, S1)
4/1
Reunion II, 1999,
Banner, Words read: “Minority Ministries Council and Urban
Ministries
Network, Reunion II, July 22, 1999, St. Louis, Missouri, “Let everyone
that
thirsts, come to the waters.” Isaiah
55:1a.” [banner also includes logo of hands clasping each other, which
was logo
of this council, 1969-74.]
.3 Assorted
Program and Historical Files, plus Photographs and Audiovisual
Materials,
1970-74, 1997-99 (Continued)
Box 5 (Oversize) (Row 44, C1, S1)
Phonograph Record Albums,
1970-72
5/1
Phonograph
Record album - "Be a Christian,"
by Mrs. Barbara Sowell, 1970 [Original album not included here - just
documentation] Cassette copy of this
album can be found in Box 2 Gray, File 7 (which also includes some
further documentation
on this album)
5/2
Phonograph
Record album - "Praises"
(1971) as sung by The Mennonaires [Original album not included here,
but is
found elsewhere - documentation is included here].
Eugene Norris as Director, Betty Toney
as
President and Keith Taylor as Secretary" (1971). Singers
included Linda Conley, Doris Norris,
Betty Toney, Karen Taylor, Joyce Ford, Velma Sanchez, Pam Brown, Denise
Harmon,
Joan Jewell, Cathy Harmon, Hubert Brown, Helen Brown, Steve Jennings,
Kevin
Redman, Keith Taylor, Jimmy Barnes, David Sanchez, John Wallace and
Terry
Jewell. Pianist - Eugene Norris;
Percussions - Keith Taylor; Guitar - Tim Pendergast.
Photography - T. Michael Weddie. "Sponsored by: Minority Ministries
Council." Recording Engineer -
Abram Rittenhouse. Choice Recordings, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Cassette
copy of this album found in Box 2 Gray, File 7.
(Copies
of the original albums are found at 1) IV-16-21, #4, Box 4 Oversize,
Row 21,
C6, Shelf top), and 2) Hist. Mss. 9-4, Row 16, C2, Shelf bottom).
5/3
Phonograph
Record album - "Everything is
Beautiful," by The Lawndale Choir,
(May 24, 1972), Director, Arlen
Hershberger; Producer, Louie Swift;
Engineer, Jack Linneman, "This album produced in co-operation with
Minority Ministries Council." Mission Records, 812 16th Avenue, S.,
Nashville, Tennessee. Record
donated by Sefernia De León, 2007. Cassette
copy of this album found in Box 2
Gray, File 7.
5/4
Phonograph
Record album - "The Difference is..."
by the Lawndale Choir, and Grace Torres and Seferina De León
(May 24, 1972). Producer / Director,
Arlen Hershberger; Cash
Recordings, Maywood,
Illinois.
G. K. and D. H., Engineers.
"Minority Ministries Council -
Sponsor." File includes article on
Seferina De León, El Puente, Febrero 3, 2004. Record donated by Sefernia De León, 2007.
IV-21-4
Mennonite Board of Missions
Minority Ministries Council
Official Files, 1969-74, of
John Powell, Executive Secretary
2 Boxes (Green)
Inventory
Listing
Box 1 (Green)
1/1
AFRAM, John Powell, 1972-74
1/2
Black Music Workshops
1973-74
1/3
Black Radio Spots
1982-74
1/4
Blacks 1971
1/5
Church and Urban Development Seminars,
1970
1/6
Compassion Fund 1969-73
1/7
Cross Cultural Relations
Lyn Hershey 1971-72
1/8
Cross-Cultural Theological Consultation 1973
1/9
Cross-Cultural Youth Convention 1972
1/10 Education
For Minority Ministers 1970-73
1/11 Education
Program Lynford
Hershey 1970-72
1/12 General
Correspondence
1969-72
1/13 Illinois - Englewood Mennonite
Church 1972-73
1/14 Kansas - Wichita
1969-73
Box 2 (Green)
2/1
Mennonite General Conference
John Powell
1969-71
2/2
Mennonite Publishing House
John Powell
1970-73
2/3
Mennonite World Conference
1971-73
2/4
Ministry to Indiana 1970-74
2/5
Minority Churches Study
1972-73
2/6
Minority Ministries
Council & General
Conference
Mennonite
Church 1969-71
2/7
Minority Ministries Council
1970-73
2/8
Mississippi
- Mashulaville Community Center 1970-73
2/9
Missouri
- St. Louis
Hubert Schwartzentruber
1970-73
2/10 National
Urban League, Inc.
Del Yoder 1970-71
2/11 Nebraska - Omaha
1969-71
2/12 New
Programs 1969-73
2/13 New York
- Har-Menno Youth Center 1969
2/14 New York
- Mennonite House of Friendship 1970-72
2/15 Oregon - Portland
1970-71
2/16 Ohio
- Spencer Chapel 1966-74
2/17 Ohio
- University-Euclid Warner Jackson 1969-72
2/18 South
Central Conference
1970-73
2/19 Summer
Assistance
1970-72
2/20 Urban
Training Seminars
1969-70
2/21 V.S.
Department 1969-73
2/22 Youth
Council 1970-73
IV-21-5
Mennonite Board of Missions
Minority Ministries Council
Education Program, 1970-73,
Lynford Hershey, Director
1 Box (Large)
Inventory
Listing
Box 1 (Large)
1/1
Actions
1/2
Black World Institute
1/3
Counsel & Reference
Committee
1/4
Correspondence,
1970-1971
1/5
Correspondence,
1972-1973
1/6
Cross Cultural Workshop
- Hesston, KS
1/7a Editors,
Church
Conference Publications
1/7b Education
1/8
"How to Turn Black
in 10 Easy Lessons", by Jo G.
1/9
IN/MI Conference Race
Seminar, 1972
1/10 Information
- Blacks
1/11 Information
- General
1/12 Information
- Indians
1/13 Information
- Race
1/14 Iowa-Nebraska
Conference
Race Seminar, 1972
1/15 MBMC
Slide Project,
"Like a Shephard"
1/16 Mennonite
Broadcasts,
1970-1972
1/17a Mennonite
Publishing House
Correspondence, 1970-1972
1/17b Minority
Ministries
Council
1/18 Ohio &
Eastern Seminars, 1971-1972
1/19 Omnibus
Curriculum
1/20 Oregon Trip
1/21 Peace
and Social Concerns
1/22 Probe
'72
1/23 Project
Equality
1/24a Race
Confrontation Series,
Nappanee,
IN
1/24b Race
Education
1/24c Race
Questionnaire -
Evaluation
1/24d Race
Questionnaire -
Responses, 1970
1/25 Race
Relations
Conference (Oregon), 1971
1/26 Southern
Trip
Correspondence, 1971-1972
1/27 Tenth St. Mennonite Church, Wichita, KS.
1/28 VS
Orientation
August 9, 2007 / Phonograph recordings
cataloged by Dennis Stoesz
September 28, 2006 / Hershey material listed
by Nelda Nussbaum
July 17, 2006 / Update by Dennis Stoesz
June 14, 2002 / Introduction, Historical
Sketch and Series added by
Dennis Stoesz
August 29, 1972 / Organized by Sharon
Klingelsmith
March 16, 2009 / Posted by Isaac Smith
Mennonite Church USA
Archives-Goshen, 1700 S.
Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526
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