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Title: A Service of Hope and Inspiration through Drama, Dance, and Music, Rev. Dr. Carl Arrington, RAIN in partnership with The Balm in Gilead Inc.
Creator (Corporate): RAIN (Charlotte N.C.)
Date Created: 2006-03-07
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Prevention, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, Baptists, Religious gatherings, African American churches, African Americans--Religion
Description: Evening religious service at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church on the topic of HIV/AIDS. Begins with a sermon in the evening. Begins with a call to worship, hymns and preaching. (7:50) Prayer for members of the church challenged by HIV. Prayer fo...

Title: Black Church Week of Prayer Service, Part II
Creator (Corporate): RAIN (Charlotte N.C.)
Date Created: 2005-03-08
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, Baptists, Religious gatherings, African American churches
Description: Partial recording of a program at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Charlotte, which was a part of Black Church Week of Prayer. RAIN (Regional AIDS Interfaith Network) President and CEO Deobrah (Debbie) Warren thanks church members, members of...

Title: Bobbie Nell Earnhardt oral history interview 1, 1996 April 26
Creator: Earnhardt, Bobbie Nell, 1921-2003
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Manners and customs, Revivals, Religious gatherings, Presbyterian Church, Church history
Description: Bobbie Earnhardt discusses her memories of Billy Graham, whom she met when he was about nine years old, and the Graham family in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Earnhardt recalls attending Chalmers Memorial ARP Church alongside the Graham family, ...

Title: Catherine Graham McElroy oral history interview, 1996 June 6
Creator: McElroy, Catherine Graham, 1920-2006
Date Created: 1996-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Families--Religious aspects--Christianity, Evangelicism, Evangelists, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Family farms, Farm life
Description: Catherine Graham McElroy, Billy Graham's sister, discusses their childhood in the 1920-1930s and Billy Graham's early years as a minister and evangelist. The Graham kids grew up on a farm on Park Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, which had corn, ...

Title: Dean Colvard oral history interview 3, 1996 May 31
Creator: Colvard, Dean W., 1913-2007
Date Created: 1996-05-31
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Fund raising, Evangelicalism, Race relations--Religious aspects
Description: As the chairperson of the 1972 Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dr. Dean Colvard discusses his role in the planning and implementation of the religious event. He details the development of such a large crusade by thousands of vol...

Title: Dr. Robert McMullen oral history interview, 1996 May 19
Creator: McMullen, Robert J.
Date Created: 1996-05-19
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Revivals, Religious gatherings, Evangelicalism
Description: Dr. Robert McMullen describes his viewpoint on Billy Graham and his crusades. While Dr. McMullen did not personally meet Rev. Graham on any occasion, he does have strong opinions about Rev. Graham's occupation and reputation. Dr. McMullen admires ...

Title: Ellen M. Little oral history interview, 1996 April 26
Creator: Little, Ellen M.
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christianity, Christian life, Amusements, Evangelicalism, Presbyterian Church, Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity, Race relations
Description: Ellen Little discusses her experience of attending a Billy Graham crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1972 and the impact it had on her spiritual development. A teenager at the time of the revival, Ms. Little describes the points of Dr. Graham...

Title: Evelyn Choate oral history interview, 2003 February 24
Creator: Choate, Evelyn B., 1911-2007
Date Created: 2003-02-24
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Teaching, Rural schools, Amusements, Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, Religious gatherings, Christian life, Church history
Description: Evelyn Brown Choate, a retired teacher, recounts her experiences during the Great Depression as an orphan in North Carolina. Ms. Choate talks about her family's farm, attending Flora MacDonald College and teaching grade school in Fayetteville, Nor...

Title: Jack Boyte oral history interview, 1996 April 26
Creator: Boyte, Jack O., 1920-2005
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, City and town life, Boy Scouts, Presbyterianism, Church fund raising
Description: Native Charlottean Jack Boyte shares his experiences with evangelical revivals in Charlotte, North Carolina. From his days of Boy Scout volunteerism, he discusses his exposure to and participation in the revivals of evangelist Mordecai Ham. He off...

Title: Lawrence E. Funderburk oral history interview, 1996 April 24
Creator: Funderburk, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edward), 1920-2012
Date Created: 1996-04-24
Subjects--Topical: Evangelicalism, Baptists, Christianity, Christian life, Revivals, Religious gatherings, Clergy, God (Christianity)
Description: Reverend Lawrence Funderburk, a local Charlotte minister, recounts his involvement with the Billy Graham Crusades in Charlotte, particularly the 1958 Crusade, and his role in the Southern Baptist Convention. He shares his thoughts about Reverend B...

Title: Lenora Crouch oral history interview, 1996 May 3
Creator: Crouch, Lenora
Date Created: 1996-05-03
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christian life
Description: In this brief interview, Lenora Crouch recalls her experiences at the 1972 Billy Graham Crusade and her memories of Billy Graham. Ms. Crouch discusses her earliest memories of Dr. Graham, including her first recollections of him as an emerging you...

Title: Melvin Graham oral history interview, 1996 May 21
Creator: Graham, Melvin, 1924-2003
Date Created: 1996-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Evangelicalism, Evangelists, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Family farms, Farm life
Description: Melvin Graham, the younger brother of Billy Graham, recounts their childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina and how Rev. Graham became involved in the church. Melvin Graham discusses life on the dairy farm growing up and how the family grew increasi...

Title: Peggy Held oral history interview, 1996 July 17
Creator: Held, Peggy, 1920-2006
Date Created: 1996-07-17
Subjects--Topical: Choirs (Music), Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christian life
Description: Peggy Held recounts her time singing in the choir during Billy Graham's crusades in New York City and in Charlotte, North Carolina during the late 1950s. She discusses how her experience with the Graham crusades influenced her family's relocation ...

Title: Robena Morgan oral history interview, 1996 May 2
Creator: Morgan, Robena P., 1906-2006
Date Created: 1996-05-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Evangelicalism
Description: Robena Morgan of Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls one of Billy Graham\u2019s crusades that she and her father attended at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California. Ms. Morgan explains that her father was an acquaintance of Billy Graham's and ...

Title: Rosemary J. Lands oral history interview, 1996 April 8
Creator: Lands, Rosemary J.
Date Created: 1996-04-08
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christianity, Christian life, Evangelicalism, City and town life, Business enterprises--Religious aspects, Amphitheaters
Description: Long-time Charlottean Rosemary Lands discusses her and her family's experiences with the 1958 Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina, which she attended at the age of twelve. Ms. Lands details the planning and community involvement prio...

Title: Spencer Graham and Kathy Graham oral history interview, 2001 December 2
Creator: Graham, Spencer, 1949-2009
Date Created: 2001-12-02
Subjects--Topical: African American churches, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Christian life, Camp meetings, Religious gatherings, Revivals
Description: Spencer Graham and Kathy Graham recount their experiences with camp meetings in Catawba County, North Carolina, and the meetings' 200-year long history in the region. The Grahams discuss how camp meetings, which take place in the summer, are consi...

Title: Suzanne "Susie" O'Neal oral history interview, 1996 May 2
Creator: O'Neal, Suzanne
Date Created: 1996-05-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, Revivals
Description: Suzanne "Susie" Herndon O'Neal recalls a Billy Graham crusade that she, her mother, and her grandmother attended in the 1950s. Ms. O'Neal was around ten years old at the time of the crusade that she attended in Greensboro, North Carolina. She desc...

Title: Thomas R. Lawing Sr. oral history interview, 1996 June 17
Creator: Lawing, T. R. (Thomas Ranson), 1927-2014
Date Created: 1996-06-17
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christian life, Choirs (Music)
Description: Charlotte businessman T. R. Lawing talks about his involvement in the Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1958. He shares his experience of singing in the crusade choir with his wife, and describes his lifelong involvement in sing...

Title: Wendell D. Sloan oral history interview, 1996 April 16
Creator: Sloan, Wendell D., 1926-2002
Date Created: 1996-04-16
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Evangelicalism, Christian life, Spiritual life--Christianity, Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity, Values--Religious aspects--Christianity
Description: Wendell D. Sloan, a church administrator, describes his experiences with Rev. Billy Graham over the years. He discusses Billy Graham's ministry and his own involvement in the Charlotte crusades, including chartering two buses from Augusta, Georgia...

Title: William Culp oral history interview, 1996 April 2
Creator: Culp, William, Sr.
Date Created: 1996-04-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Methodist Church, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Church work, Clergy, Church finance, Race relations
Description: Reverend William Culp, a Methodist minister in Charlotte, discusses his involvement with Billy Graham's ministry over decades, particularly the Billy Graham Crusade held in Charlotte in the 1950s. Mr. Culp relates information about the long-range ...