Research Catalog

Title

Tyrone Pitts/National Council of Churches Papers, 1951-1989 (bulk 1980-1989)

Author

Pitts, Tyrone.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Details

Additional Authors

Burke, Kenyon C.

Description

8.5 lin. ft. (20 boxes)

Summary

The Tyrone Pitts/NCC Papers are devoted primarily to the work of Tyrone Pitts as the NCC's Director for Racial Justice. This position was in the NCC's Division of Church and Society which was headed by Kenyon Burke. Pitts' role in the Racial Justice Working Group and the Ecumenical Minority Bail Bond Fund are particularly well documented.

Donor/Sponsor

Preservation of the Black Religious Heritage Project funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Subjects

• Racism
• Race relations > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Christic Institute
• United States > Race relations
• National Interreligious Commission on Civil Rights
• Race relations > 20th century
• Council on Interracial Books for Children
• Civil rights > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc > United States > 20th century
• Robeson County (N.C.)
• Church and social problems > United States
• Bail > United States > 20th century
• National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America > Ecumenical Minority Bail Bond Fund
• East Coast Farmworker Support Network
• Black Theology Project
• National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America > Division of Church and Society
• Agricultural laborers > Social conditions > United States
• Apartheid > South Africa
• Race discrimination > Law and legislation
• National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America > Racial Justice Working Group
• Indians of North America > Legal status, laws, etc > 20th century
• South Africa > Race relations
• Minorities > Crimes against
• Agricultural laborers > Civil rights > United States
• Church and minorities > United States
• Anti-apartheid movements

Note

• Photographs have been transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division and are described separately.

Access (note)

• Proposals closed until 2010.

Source (note)

• Pitts, Tyrone

Biography (note)

• An ordained minister of the American Baptist Church, Pitts was the Director for Racial Justice at the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC) from 1980 to 1989.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository.

Processing Action (note)

• Processed

Call Number

Sc MG 393

OCLC

NYPW92-A170

Author

Pitts, Tyrone.

Title

Tyrone Pitts/National Council of Churches Papers, 1951-1989 (bulk 1980-1989)

Access

Proposals closed until 2010.

Biography

An ordained minister of the American Baptist Church, Pitts was the Director for Racial Justice at the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC) from 1980 to 1989.

The NCC, founded in 1950, is an ecumenical organization made up of member communions, including Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican Church bodies. Through its programs the NCC work encompasses a wide range of activities that further Christian unity, promote social justice and serve people throughout the world.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Burke, Kenyon C.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 393