William J. Walls Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

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William J. Walls Papers

An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

Finding aid created by: --
Date: Apr 1999

Revision history:

12 Dec 2007

converted to EAD (MRC)

17 May 2023

additions incorporated, entire collection rehoused (MRC)

Overview of the Collection

Creator:

Walls, William Jacob, 1885-1975.

Title:

William J. Walls Papers

Dates:

1898-1977

Quantity:

15.0 linear ft.

Abstract:

Papers of the bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Conference proceedings, correspondence, personal material, photographs, printed material, and writings.

Language:

English

Repository:

Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
222 Waverly Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

William J. Walls (1885-1975) was a Black American churchman and author.

Walls was born in Chimney Rock, North Carolina. He was recognized as an effective preacher at very young age, being ordained to the AME Zion ministry at the church's Hopkins Chapel in Asheville shortly after his 14th birthday. He graduated from Livingstone College and Hood Theological Seminary, after which he did graduate work at Columbia University and received an advanced degree from the University of Chicago.

Walls was an active member of the AME Zion Church, originally formed in 1796 in New York City in response to discrimination against Black members in the regular Methodist Church. Walls' home congregation was Thomas Memorial AME Zion in Watertown, New York, long known as an anti-slavery church; notable members included Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Katherine Harris,Jermaine Loguen, and Frederick Douglass.

Among his other duties, Walls served as senior bishop and secretary of the Board of Bishops and as chairman of the Board of Christian Education, Home and Church, and participated in Christian Education conventions on the denominational, national, international, and world levels. He was a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, the executive committee of the World Council of Methodism, and the General Assembly and General Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ, and was the ecumenical spokesman for Zion Methodism.

In addition to his church activities, Wall was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving on the Board of Directors and as vice president. He also found time to write, producing a biography of Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone College, and a definitive history of AME Zion entitled The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Reality of the Black Church (1974).

Speaking about Black theology, he said. "I don't know what it is. The less we try to reduce Jesus Christ to a segregated level or try to color Him, the better off we will be."

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The William J. Walls Papers consists of conference proceedings, correspondence-subject files, personal material, photographs, printed material, and writings.

Conference proceedings contains material from Methodist and AME Zion conferences at the regional and national level. The bulk are from the New England and Western New York Conferences.

Correspondence-subject files includes fellow churchmen, friends, family, organizations, and legislators at the local, state, and federal level. Much of this material reflects Walls' range of activities within the church, including church camps, schools, leadership conferences, and so on.

Personal material consists of material identified as such by Walls, e.g. items with "Personal" written in upper right corner, or contained in folder labeled "Personal." Included here are early photographs of Walls as a child and young man, programs from events at which he was a guest speaker or honoree, clippings about him, biographical sketches and lists of achievements. Also included here are items of correspondence with legislators at the state and national level which Walls deemed personal.

Most of the Photographs come from various events Walls was attending, speaking at, being honored, and so on. There are also photographs of at least two churches in Africa with which he was connected.

The bulk of Printed material consists of clippings about the AME Zion Church and its conferences, including many which mention, quote, or discuss Walls. There are also articles about civil rights, police brutality, political events, and jazz (Walls wrote an article on the "jazzing" of church music). The remainder of this series contains a few booklets, pamphlets, newsletters, and other random items.

Writings contains articles, books, booklets, Quadrennial Reports the General Conference of the AME Zion Church, sermons, speeches, and miscellaneous items. Of particular interest

Arrangement of the Collection

For the most part, Walls' original order, organization, and folder titles have been maintained. Conference proceedings are filed alphabetically by title of the conference and within that chronologically. Correspondence-subject files are filed alphabetically by the title given them by Walls, with the exception that some notable correspondents (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr.) have been pulled out and given their own folders. Personal material has been filed alphabetically by the title given it by Walls, or by the simplest title we could deduce (e.g. Photographs). Photographs are arranged chronologically. Printed material is subdivided by type of material; clippings are further arranged chronologically. Writings are subdivided by type and then further arranged alphabetically by title.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Subject Headings

Persons

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
Walls, William Jacob, 1885-1975.

Corporate Bodies

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church -- Clergy.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
Livingstone College

Subjects

African American Methodists.
African American bishops.
African American clergy.
African Americans -- Biography.
Christian education.
Civil rights workers.
Clergy -- United States.
Methodist conferences.
Methodists -- United States.
Sermons, American.

Genres and Forms

Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscript for publication.
Photographs.
Sermons.
Speeches (documents)

Occupations

Clergy.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

William J. Walls Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Conference proceedings

Correspondence-subject files

Personal

Photographs

Printed material

Writings

Inventory

Conference proceedings

Box 1

AME Zion 1936, 1950, 1966 - 89th, 101st, 117th

Box 1

Allegheny Conference 1937-1939, 1941-1942, 1946-1947, 1949-1951 - 90th-92nd, 94th, 95th, 100th, 101st, 103rd-105th (2 folders)

Box 1

Blue Ridge Conference 1963-1967 - 73rd-77th

Box 1

Indiana Conference 1937-1942 - 27th-33rd

Box 2

Indiana Conference 1945-1947 - 36th-38th

Box 2

Kentucky Conference 1939-1944 - 74th-77th

Box 2

New England Conference 1929-1932, 1934, 1937-1938, 1940, 1942-1951, 1955-1956 - 85th-88th, 90th, 93rd, 94th, 96th, 98th-107th, 111th, 112th (5 folders)

Box 3

New England Conference 1960-1963 - 116th-119th

Box 3

New York Conference 1945, 1947-1949, 1952-1954, 1957-1959, 1961-1962, 1963 - 124th, 126th-128th, 131st-133rd, 136th-138th, 140th-142nd (5 folders)

Box 3

Western Alabama Conference 1925-1929 - 30th, 31st, 33rd, [34th?]

Box 3

Western New York Conference 1944, 1946-1949 - 95th, 97th-100th, 102nd, 103rd

Box 4

Western New York Conference 1953-1954, 1956, 1958-1964, 1966 - 104th, 105th, 107th, 109th, 110th-115th, 117th (2 folders)

Box 4

Western North Carolina Conference 1951, 1955, 1957-1959, 1961-1967 - 67th-72nd, 74th-77th (4 folders)

Correspondence-subject files

Box 5

African-Asian and foreign organizations 1959

Box 5

AME Zion departments 1952-1962, undated - includes Christian education, financial, foreign missions, etc.; see also specific departments below (2 folders)

Box 5

American Bible Society 1948, 1957-1967 (2 folders)

Box 5

Anderson, F.S. (Bishop) 1960-1963, 1966-1968

Box 5

Appreciation [and] thank you expressions 1959-1964, undated (2 folders)

Box 5

A general (2 folders)

Box 5

Bell, A.C. 1958-1963

Box 5

Bess, Hunter B. 1954, 1958-1963

Box 5

Board of Bishops 1957-1960 (3 folders)

Box 6

Board of Bishops 1961-1971, undated (2 folders)

Box 6

Boy Scouts / Girl Scouts 1959-1960, 1969, undated

Box 6

Brown, W.C. (Bishop) 1959-1963, undated

Box 6

B general (3 folders)

Box 6

Camp Barber 1958-1964, 1970, 1973, undated

Box 6

Camp Dorothy Walls 1958-1962 (3 folders)

Box 7

Camp Dorothy Walls 1963-1965, undated (2 folders)

Box 7

Cauthen, J.D. (Bishop) 1958-1964

Box 7

Christian education, Dr. J.W. Eichelberger 1958-1964, 1967, 1971-1974 - See also AME Zion departments, above. (2 folders)

Box 7

Church extension, Mr. D.W. Andrews 1959-1963, 1972 - See also AME Zion departments, above.

Box 7

Church Federation of Greater Chicago 1958-1964, undated

Box 7

Church school literature, Dr. J. Van Catledge 1958-1963

Box 7

Church union and consultation on church union 1968-1974 (3 folders)

Box 7

Circular, incoming 1959-1960, 1962

Box 7

Circular, outgoing 1958-1964 - "pastoral letter" from First District, AME Zion

Box 7

Clement, Rufus E. (Bishop) 1958, 1960, 1973

Box 7

Clinton Junior College 1958-1959, 1963, undated

Box 7

Connectional Council 1958-1960, 1963-1964, 1974

Box 7

Cooper. W.A. 1958-1963

Box 7

CORE 1960-1961, undated

Box 8

C general (3 folders)

Box 8

Discipline, hymnals, General Conference 1960-1963 - regarding publication of "The AME Zion Church Discipline," a book of hymnals; see also Hymnal Commission / Hymnal matters

Box 8

D general (2 folders)

Eichelberger, J.W. - See Christian education, Dr. J.W. Eichelberger

Box 8

Evangelism, Dr. W.S. Dacons 1959-1960

Box 8

Evangelism, Dr. E.S. Hardge 1961-1963

Box 8

E general

Box 8

Finance department, R.W. Sherrill 1958-1963 - See also AME Zion departments, above.

Box 8

First District conferences 1963-1967 - includes some legal material (contracts, lawsuit, etc.); see also Western New York Conf??

Box 8

First District youth conferences 1959-1964, undated (2 folders)

Box 8

Foggie, Charles H. (Bishop) 1960, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1972

Box 9

Foreign letters and stamps 1959-1964, undated (2 folders)

Box 9

Foreign missions, "Missionary Seer," J.C. Haggard 1959-1964, 1972 - See also AME Zion departments, above.

Box 9

Foster, Richard A.G. 1958-1967

Box 9

Fraternal Negro Council of Churches 1959

Box 9

Freedom Centennial, First Epis. Dist. 1963 (5 folders)

Box 9

F general (2 folders)

Box 9

General conference correspondence 1959-1960 (2 folders)

Box 10

General conference, Indianapolis 1964 (2 folders)

Box 10

General Secretary auditor, Mrs. Alstork 1959-1960, undated

Box 10

General Secretary auditor, Mr. E.M. Graham 1961-1964, 1967

Box 10

G general (2 folders)

Box 10

Hardge, Arthur L. 1958-1963

Box 10

Hardy, Lenora 1958-1959

Box 10

Harriet Tubman Home 1954-1961, 1964-1972, undated - See also Leak, Hattie M.; includes photograph (4 folders)

Box 10

Henderson, William T. 1958-1960

Box 10

Hilliard, W.A. (Bishop) 1959-1964, 1969

Box 11

Home missions pensions relief, Dr. A.P. Morris 1957-1969, 1972, undated

Box 11

Hood Theological Seminary 1959-1961, 1964, undated - see also individual names; Walls filed some people associated with HTS under their own name(s)

Box 11

Hughes, Langston 1967

Box 11

Hunter, R.T. 1958-1963

Box 11

Hymnal Commission / hymnal matters, printing 1958-1959 - See also "Discipline, hymnals, General Conference" above

Box 11

H general (3 folders)

Box 11

Inter-Church Center 1958-1960, undated (3 folders)

Box 11

International Society of Christian Endeavor 1959-1963, 1969, 1973

Box 11

Invitations 1957-1959

Box 12

Invitations 1960-1964, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1974 (5 folders)

Box 12

I general

Box 12

Jones, R.L. (Bishop) 1959-1964, 1972, undated

Box 12

J general (2 folders)

Box 12

Kennedy, John F. 1958-1963 - includes typescript carbon of "AME Zion Bishops greetings…on the occasion of…the 100th year of emancipation and 167 years of freedom's march"

Box 12

Khan, Abiel 1958-1959, 1969, 1972-1974 - Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow

Box 12

King, Martin Luther Jr. 1958-1959, 1964-1965

Box 12

K general

Box 12

Lake Placid property 1957-1964

Box 13

Lartey, S. Dorme (Bishop) 1958-1964, 1967, 1969 (2 folders)

Box 13

Leak, Hattie M. 1958-1965

Box 13

Libraries, misc. 1969, 1972

Box 13

Livingstone College 1958-1968 (8 folders)

Box 14

Livingstone College 1969-1974, undated (2 folders)

Box 14

Livingstone College, Presiden S.E. Duncan 1958-1961, undated

Box 14

Lomax-Hannon College 1959

Box 14

L general (2 folders)

Box 14

McGuire, P.E. (Paul) 1958-1959

Box 14

McKinney, Carnes 1958-1963

Box 14

McKinney, Petty D. 1959-1963

Box 14

Medford, H.T. (Bishop) 1958-1964

Box 14

Michael, E.R. 1958-1963, 1969

Box 14

Miller, John H. 1958-1963, 1969

Box 14

M general (2 folders)

Box 14

Mc general

Box 15

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1958-1964, 1967, 1972 (2 folders)

Box 15

National Conference on Religion and Race 1962-1963

Box 15

National Council of Churches of Christ 1956-1969, 1972, undated (9 folders)

Box 16

National Council of Churches of Christ, General Assembly 1963

Box 16

New England Conference 1958-1964 (3 folders)

Box 16

New York Conference 1902, 1957-1963 (5 folders)

Box 16

N general

Box 16

O general

Box 16

Paris, William A. 1958-1963

Box 16

Pittsburgh Courier 1958-1961, 1969

Box 17

Pope, Daniel C. (Bishop) 1959-1964

Box 17

Programs 1943, 1947, 1949, 1955, 1957-1968 - dedications, services, district conferences, memorials, anniversaries, etc.; includes Livingstone College, New York Conference, Board of Bishops, Young Peoples' Conference, etc. (12 folders)

Box 18

Programs 1969, 1973-1974, undated - dedications, services, district conferences, memorials, anniversaries, etc.; includes Livingstone College, New York Conference, Board of Bishops, Young Peoples' Conference, etc.

Box 18

Protestant Council of Churches, New York 1959-1963 (3 folders)

Box 18

Public relations, Mr. Alexander Barnes 1959-1963

Box 18

Publishing House, Dr. L.L. Boyd 1959-1962

Box 18

P general (3 folders)

Box 18

Quarterly review, Dr. David H. Bradley 1958-1963

Box 18

Randolph, A. Philip 1959-1962, 1969

Box 18

Rice, Willa Mae 1958-1963, 1967

Box 18

Robeson, B.C. 1958-1962

Box 18

Robinson, Jackie 1958-1962

Box 18

Robinson, M.B. 1958-1969 - See also Star of Zion.

Box 18

Rochester, Enoch B. 1960-1963

Box 18

Rockefeller, Nelson 1961, 1963, 1968

Box 18

Roosevelt, Eleanor 1954, 1958, 1960

Box 18

Rudd, Matthew S. 1958-1964 - includes his wife Daisy

Box 18

R general (2 folders)

Box 19

Satterwhite, John H. 1959-1965, 1969

Box 19

Shaw, H.B. (Bishop) 1959-1963, 1969

Box 19

Siler, Lee Clinton 1958-1969

Box 19

Slade, W.W. (Bishop) 1959, 1963

Box 19

Smith, Leslie 1960-1963

Box 19

Smith, W.M. (Bishop) 1960-1963, 1972-1973

Box 19

Southern Conference Education Fund, Inc. 1959-1960

Box 19

Spottswood, S.G. (Bishop) 1959-1964, 1969

Box 19

Star of Zion 1954, 1959-1963, 1972 - editors W.R. Lovell, M.B. Robinson

Box 19

State and local councils 1958-1967, 1972 - mostly New York, North Carolina (3 folders)

Box 19

Stewart, James E.W. 1958-1964, 1972-1973

Box 19

Stewart, W.A. (Bishop) 1959-1965, 1969

Box 19

Subscriptions 1959-1960, undated - books, magazines, papers, etc.

Box 19

S general (4 folders)

Box 20

Telegrams, incoming 1958-1970 (3 folders)

Box 20

Telegrams, outgoing 1958-1967

Box 20

Thomas, Carl Alan 1958-1959, 1963

Box 20

Thomas, George 1960-1964, 1968, 1973

Box 20

Trent, William J. 1958-1964, 1969

Box 20

Tucker, C.E. (Bishop) 1959-1963, 1969

Box 20

T general (2 folders)

Box 20

U.S. Department of State 1961-1963, 1969

Box 20

Ursuline Lower School 1971 - letters from students at Catholic girls' school in Westchester County

Box 20

U general

Box 20

Vantage Press 1958, 1960

Box 20

V general

Box 20

Walters, Zoe 1958-1961

Box 20

Ward, M.N. 1958-1961

Box 20

Watkins, Johnsie and Donnie 1958-1961

Box 21

Wells, I.J.K. 1958-1961

Box 21

Western New York Conference 1957-1964 (4 folders)

Box 21

Western North Carolina Conference 1957-1963 (5 folders)

Box 21

White House Conference on Children and Youth 1959-1960

Box 21

World Council of Christian Education 1958-1963, 1969

Box 22

World Council of Churches 1946, 1949, 1957-1967, 1972-1975, undated (4 folders)

Box 22

World Council of Churches, 3rd General Assembly 1961 (2 folders)

Box 22

World Council of Churches, 4th General Assembly 1968

World Methodist Council 1958-1967 (3 folders)

Box 22

World Sunday School Convention - See World Council on Christian Education

Box 22

W general: Wa-Whi (2 folders)

Box 23

W general: Who=-Wy (2 folders)

Box 23

X-Y-Z general

Box 23

Unidentified

Personal

Items filed here were identified as such by Walls, e.g. "Personal" written in upper right corner, or contained in folder labeled "Personal."

Box 23

Biographies and achievements

Box 23

Clippings about 1925, 1943-1958, 1963-1968, 1975, undated (3 folders)

Box 23

Correspondence, government misc. 1916, 1958-1968 - includes White House, Congress, state and local legislators, etc.

Box 23

Correspondence, individuals 1958-1963 - Mazie and James Noble; Fannie [last name unknown]

Box 23

Correspondence 1943, 1956-1975, undated - undated items include two partial letters from Walls to his mother (3 folders)

Box 24

Financial and legal miscellany - bank books, copy of will, etc.

Box 24

Photographs 1898, 1918, 1921, 1924, 1926, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1966, 1968, 1971, undated

Box 24

Programs 1937, 1943-1954, 1957, 1965, 1968-1969, 1973 - events at which Walls spoke, presided, presented, etc.

Box 24

Travel memorabilia - England, Norway, Germany, "Pan Am Clipper" material (3 folders)

Box 24

Tributes and honors 1913, 1916, 1939, 1941-1942, 1949, 1954-1969, 1974-1977, undated - a few items accompanied by photographs (5 folders)

Box 25

Miscellaneous (2 folders)

Photographs

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1940, 1946, 1948, 1953, 1957-1959 - Adam Clayton Powell at AME Zion Sesquicentennial Program in New York City; Camp Dorothy Walls buildings; Livingstone College Board of Trustees; consecration of youth officers

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1960 - Livingstone College presentation of property; General Conference, Buffalo NY; cornerstone ceremony for Cartwright Memorial AME Zion church in Monrovia; testimonial banquet honoring Bishop and Mrs. Walls (2 folders)

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1961-1962 - World Council of Churches, Lucknow, India; Board of Bishops, Knoxville; dedication of Boys Building, Camp Dorothy Walls; World Methodist Conference, Oslo; Founders' Day, Livingstone College; Governor Terry Sandford, Mayor Lynnwood Foil, Christian Education conference

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1963 - Freedom Centennial; Commencement, Livingstone College; Board of Bishops meeting with President Kennedy; Walls Temple

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1964 - Dorothy Walls Girls School, Liberia; General Conference, Indiana; World Methodist Council Executive Board

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1965 - dedication of William J. Walls Center, Livingstone College; Western North Carolina Conference, Salisbury NC; National Council of Churches, Des Moines

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1966-1967 - Board of Bishops; World Methodist Council, London; J.W. Eichelberger; dedication of Harriet Tubman Memorial Chapel, Niagara Falls; Walls Memorial Church and baseball team; WH&FM Society General Conference; architect's rendering of Heritage Hall, Livingstone College; Walls receiving Distinguished Alumni Award; Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson; Youth Congress, Western NY

Box 25

Miscellaneous 1968-1969 - testimonial dinners for Walls; Commencement, Livingstone College; Dr. Carrington retirement banquet

Box 25

Miscellaneous undated - dedication ceremony for Cartwright Memorial Chapel, Liberia; Walls with Vice-President Nixon

Printed material

Box 26

Book: Together we live by William A. Cooper 1962

Box 26

Booklets - miscellaneous booklets and pamphlets (2 folders)

Box 26

Clippings 1949-1953, 1956-1963 - most are about AME Zion Church events, many of which mention, feature, or quote Walls (7 folders)

Box 27

Clippings 1964-1975, undated - most are about AME Zion Church events, many of which mention, feature, or quote Walls (3 folders)

Box 27

Newsletters an periodicals - most have to do with Christian education

Box 27

Miscellaneous

Writings

Articles

Box 27

The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church undated

Box 27

The bishop's word 1961 - pubilshed The lamplighter

Box 27

The church faces totalitarianism and war [circa 1943]

Box 27

From nature's pulpit to editor's chair undated

Box 27

The greatest opportunity of Protestantism 1932, 1942

Box 27

Green hair undated - published in Grassroots supplement

Box 27

History of the Star of Zion 1921

Box 27

On jazzing Negro religious songs 1958, 1960 - includes issue of Hue which has an article on the topic and quotes Walls; see also Clippings from this date

Box 27

Politics undated

Box 27

Rise of the Negro church undated

Box 27

Some conditions on Methodist union 1967

Box 27

Washington memorial attended by nearly 2000 [1915] - regarding Booker T. Washington memorial service in Louisville

Box 27

What the churches are doing in race relations 1930

Booklets

Some of these may be printed versions of speeches or addresses, it is not always clear.

Box 27

Connectionalism and the Negro church undated

Box 27

Glimpses of memories 1921

Box 27

Harriet Tubman undated

Box 27

The Harriet Tubman home: Its present and future 1954

Box 27

Living essentials of our Methodism undated

Box 27

Meeting the present challenge undated

Box 27

The trials and triumphs of bishops undated

Books

Box 28

Prophets of freedom - ten chapters, typescript (5 folders)

Box 28

The romance of a college 1963 - published edition; about Livingstone College

Quadrennial reports

Box 28

Historian Fund 1972, 1974

Box 28

First Episcopal District 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 - 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th sessions (4 folders)

Box 29

Second Episcopal District 1948, 1952 - 33rd, 34th sessions

Box 29

Fourth Episcopal District 1944 - 32nd session

Box 29

Fifth Episcopal District 1940, 1963 - 31st session; typed pages also have a 1963 date, unclear why

Box 29

Eighth Episcopal District 1932, 1936 - 29th and 30th sessions

Box 29

Tenth Episcopal District 1928, 1963 - 28th session

Box 29

[as] Editor of the Star of Zion 1924 - 27th session

School papers

Most, if not all, of these were written by Walls for his work at the University of Chicago towards the MA in Religious Education. They vary widely in length and complexity.

Box 29

B-C [1938-1941] - The bible in modern religious experience; Close study of the prophet Isaiah

Box 29

H [1938-1941] - History of Christian thought in America

Box 29

J-N [1938-1941] - Jesus' ascetic teaching and its basis; John Wesley's doctrine of the church; Liberal Christian theology in the light of the present cultural situation; Methods of private religious living; The Negro and the intelligence

Box 29

T [1938-1941] - The teaching of Jesus

Sermons

Box 28

Appalachian preaching mission, sermons 1-6 1956 - topics include Christian leadership, Christians and the law, dreams and God's word; includes correspondence and printed material relating to the project

Box 29

Miscellaneous 1948, 1955-1957, 1959, 1963, undated (2 folders)

Speeches and addresses

All of these were identified as "Speeches and addresses" by Walls. Included here are episcopal addresses, fraternal addresses, commencement speeches, eulogies, prayers for specific occasions, radio speeches, and so on. Some are typed originals, some are carbon copies. Some have corrections and annotations. Several of the earlier-dated items were evidently retyped at a much later date, as they are on modern paper with the original date handwritten at the top.

Box 29

All aboard for Africa: Hoist the flag for Christendom 1965

Box 29

The AME Zion Church: Its Methodist identity 1966

Box 29

The AME Zion Church in the present religious situation

Box 29

American freedom and the Negro

Box 29

Bishop J.S. Caldwell and 25 years of episcopacy

Box 29

Black power 1968

Box 29

The Black preacher and his church: Our omnipresent freedom force 1971

Box 29

Business and religion 1918

Box 29

The Central Committee: An interpretation 1949

Box 29

Christian devotion and loyalty 1951

Box 29

Civil rights 1972

Box 29

Demands of the situation 1956

Box 29

Desegregation 1954 - radio address

Box 30

The ecumenical movement 1955

Box 30

Episcopal addresses, Allegheny Conference 1939, 1941, 1951

Box 30

Episcopal addresses, Indiana Conference 1937, 1939

Box 30

Episcopal addresses, Kentucky Conference 1936

Box 30

Episcopal addresses, New England Conference 1933, 1939, 1941, 1945

Box 30

Episcopal addresses, New York Conference 1954

Box 30

Episcopal addresses, North Carolina Conference 1951

Box 30

Episcopal addresses, unidentified 1960, 1962

Box 30

Eulogy, Rev. A.A. Perry [1963]

Box 30

Evangelism and the AME Zion Church in the freedom centenary 1963

Box 30

Fraternal addresses 1918, 1928 - delivered at AME Zion General Conferences

Box 30

Freedom and love 1959

Box 30

The function of the Negro press circa 1920?

Box 30

Getting beyond verbalizing about religion to the religious reconstruction of personal and social experience 1941

Box 30

The gospel of liberation 1972

Box 30

Home and church school in a technological age 1940 - radio address

Box 30

The home heart of America 1939 - radio address

Box 30

In Pakistan and India 1935 - Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India

Box 30

Jesus' asceticism teaching and its basis 1940 - radio address

Box 30

Jesus' conception of his own task undated - radio address

Box 30

John Wesley, evangelist and social leader 1940s

Box 30

Ministers undated

Box 30

The Negro and labor unions 1940s

Box 30

The Negro's needs and desires 1936

Box 30

On public school prayer 1962

Box 30

Our day: Smiting a passage through a world like this 1952

Box 30

The place of the Negro church in history 1951

Box 30

Prayers, miscellaneous 1950, 1958

Box 30

Realizing the reality 1940

Box 30

Religion and the American spirit 1932 - radio address

Box 30

Religion and the public mind

Box 30

Richard Allen and our time 1962

Box 30

The romance of a college: its evolution 1963

Box 30

Rough times ahead 1956

Box 30

Significance of Bandung 1954

Box 30

The spirit of Lincoln in the present age 1935 - radio address

Box 30

Supremacy of the cook book 1940

Box 30

The tree is known by his fruit 1972

Box 31

Types of creative living 1950

Box 31

Walking with the Lord 1955-1956 - "in recognition of the Mongomery, Alabama bus boycott"

Box 31

What the Negro wants 1919 - clipping from the Louisville Leader

Box 31

Why and how Paul purposed on Rome 1963

Box 31

Will yesterday be tomorrow undated

Box 31

Untitled 1931, 1941, 1956, 1958-1959, 1963, 1965, undated

Miscellaneous

Box 31

Invitational tour of Europe by representative American clergymen 1947-1948 - organized by the US Department of the Army and Secretary of War Robert Patterson; includes several photographs

Box 31

My creed [1949]

Box 31

Notebook - notes on various books of the Bible; numerous laid-in items have been left in their original position

Box 31

Travel diary 1952 - notes made during a trip to South Africa

Box 31

A-Z, miscellaneous - includes handwritten notes on John Locke, "appraisements" of the 1951 World Methodist Conference, press release on firing of Autherine Lucy from University of Alabama, response to article by William Faulkner, foreword to a booklet entitled "My Life," paper on problems in religious education, Walls' testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1949, responses to interview questions, etc.

Box 31

Fragments

Box 31

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