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Slides Relating to The Great Migration Produced by The Methodist Episcopal Church. ... (Total: 2 )
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Slides Relating to The Great Migration Produced by The Methodist Episcopal Church. "The Negro in the City" is an extensive group of forty-four glass slides produced by the Committee on Conservation and Advance for The Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago, Illinois. Circa 1920s. It is a spectacular visual record of the Great Migration from the late 1910s - early 1920s, capturing Black life from sharecropper farms of the South to the schools, churches, and tenements of Chicago, Detroit, and other major cities in the Northeast. It discusses the role African-American Methodist Episcopal Churches and the Committee on Conservation and Advance were taking to help these new populations find work. Slide 17 outlines their ten-step program for this. It includes training new pastors, erecting new city churches, building community houses, facilitating employment opportunities, and providing community workers and nurses. The latter half of the slides feature photographs of several Methodist Episcopal churches that were to serve as a base for outreach in their respective cities. Some of those mentioned include St. Mark's in New York, Sharp Street Church in Baltimore, Mt. Zion Church in Washington, D.C., St. Paul's Church in Dallas, South Park Methodist Church in Chicago, and St. Mark's in Chicago. They are housed in their original black carrying case with "NEGRO-CITY / 18" stamped in white and accompanied by a pamphlet captioning each slide. Produced by a leading Black church in Chicago, this is the only complete set known to survive. Even single examples of these magic lantern slides are nearly impossible to find. To the best of our knowledge, few, if any of these powerful images have ever been published.Condition: Case is worn and rubbed. Pamphlet with some detached pages, which are laid in. Slides lightly rubbed along edges but not affecting images.
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2022 October 19 Historic African Americana Signature® Auction #6248 (go to Auction Home page)
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