The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Clay Evans.

Religious and civil rights leader Reverend Clay Evans was born on June 23, 1925, in Brownsville, Tennessee. After high school Evans moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he attended seminary school. He was then ordained a Baptist minister in 1950, and, in 1958, founded the Fellowship Baptist Church on C...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Evans, Clay, Rev (Interviewee)
Richardson, Julieanna L. (Interviewer)
Crowe, Larry F. (Interviewer)
Stearns, Scott (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Evans, Clay, > Rev > Interviews.
Evans, Clay, > Rev.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Minister > Nonprofit Chief Executive.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (7 video files (2 hr., 33 min., 35 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Reverend Clay Evans
Reverend Clay Evans
Format: Electronic Video
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Summary:
Religious and civil rights leader Reverend Clay Evans was born on June 23, 1925, in Brownsville, Tennessee. After high school Evans moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he attended seminary school. He was then ordained a Baptist minister in 1950, and, in 1958, founded the Fellowship Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. Evans gained a wide evangelical following in the Midwest and the South, where his weekly sermons aired on radio and television. He also worked to help train eighty-one fellow ministers. In 1965, Evans and the Reverend Jesse Jackson founded Operation PUSH, and from 1971 to 1976, Evans served as chairman of the prominent civil rights group. In 1982, Evans published his autobiography From Plough Handle to Pulpit, which traced his journey from the fields of Tennessee to the churches of Chicago. He and his wife, Lutha Mae Hollingshed, had five children and lived in Chicago.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:02:33:35
Credits:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Participant or Performer:
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 1993 July 4.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 January 30.
Source of Description:
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