Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mt. Zion AME Church records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1026
Abstract
Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1882 in Charleston, South Carolina after the church divided from Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, due to its inability to accommodate all its members. The new congregation, led by Norman B. Sterrett, purchased the Zion Presbyterian Church building on Glebe Street.
The collection consist of two separate series, each in chronological order. The first series of member and financial records contains information regarding members of the...
Dates:
1884-1949
William Saxon Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract
The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982
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- Subject: African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History X
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- African American Episcopalians 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 1
- Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- business cards 1
- invitations 1
- printed ephemera 1
- programs (documents) 1 + ∧ less
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