Delta Ministry Freedom City Pamphlet

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Title: Delta Ministry Freedom City Pamphlet
Description: Delta Ministry pamphlet advertising “Freedom City” as a way for disenfranchised plantation workers to build a better life for themselves and their families, 1965. The Delta Ministry, led by Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore was a national response to the racial unrest in Mississippi. Allin, however, believed that a local approach to the problem was a better solution. The two men would be at odds through the tumultuous times of the 1960s.
Publisher: Delta Ministry
Date: 1965
Rights: ©The Archives of the Episcopal Church, DFMS
Type: Text
Identifier: 197
Source: Records of the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity

Item sets: Venture in Ministry

Site pages: Race as a Sectional Issue; Delta Ministry and Division; Local or National Church?

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