- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 56 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins, Jr., was born on September 8, 1926 in Newport News, Virginia. In 1954, at the age of twenty-seven, Rollins was sent to become the first pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida. There, Rollins was active in the Tallahassee Bus Boycott. In 1961, Rollins was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in the Freedom Rides. He served as Vice President of the Nashville Christian Leadership Council, a branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and acted as the Field Director for United Presbyterian's Board of Education. Rollins became the first Executive Director of the National Committee of Black Churchmen (NCBC) in 1967, an organization dedicated to advocating for racial awareness within churches. In 1972, Rollins relocated to the Bronx, New York to become Pastor at St. Augustine Presbyterian Church. He remained the Pastor until 2005, when, at the age of seventy-eight, he became Pastor Emeritus.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins
- Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 998758677
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
025631
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded White Plains, New York 2007 September 14.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist Pastor.
- Added Author
Rollins, J. Metz (Joseph Metz), 1926- interviewee.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.