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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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A History of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church
Author: History of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church
Author: A Brief History of the First United Methodist Church of Greenwood, Mississippi
Author: First United Methodist Church, Greenwood, Miss. History CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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A History of Methodist Women
Author: Winnie PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Lost Churches of Mississippi
Author: Richard J. CawthonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 160473437X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagogues vanquished by fire, disaster, development, or neglect. Constructed primarily from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, these places of worship were often among the most visually prominent and architecturally striking buildings in Mississippi. Storms, floods, tornadoes, flames, bulldozers, or the disbandment of congregations razed what once was hallowed. In Lost Churches of Mississippi, architectural historian Richard J. Cawthon reclaims such noteworthy churches as the old St. Paul's Catholic Church in Vicksburg, Bethel Presbyterian Church near Columbus, the old Trinity Episcopal Church in Pass Christian, and the old First Presbyterian Church in Yazoo City. Selections represent over fifty towns and cities throughout the state and are captured in 180 distinctive black-and-white illustrations from several historical archives and other collections. Cawthon discusses the architectural features and historical background of each house of worship and provides a brief introduction that illuminates the study of lost buildings, as well as a glossary of architectural terms and an annotated bibliography. Lost Churches of Mississippi rescues a cardinal legacy and recognizes a portion of the state's rich architectural and religious heritage.
A History of the First Methodist Church of Starkville, Mississippi
Author: Gene Ramsey MillerPublisher:
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Category : First Methodist Church (Starkville, Miss.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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One Mississippi, Two Mississippi
Author: Carol V. R. GeorgePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190231106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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During Freedom Summer 1964, three young civil rights workers who were tasked with registering voters at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Neshoba County, Mississippi were murdered there by law enforcement and Ku Klux Klansmen. The murders were hardly noticed in the area, so familiar had such violence become in the Magnolia State. For forty-one days the bodies of the three men lay undetected in a nearby dam, and for years afterward efforts to bring those responsible to justice were met only with silence. In One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Carol V.R. George links the history of the Methodist Church (now the United Methodist Church), with newly-researched local history to show the role of this large denomination, important to both blacks and whites, in Mississippi's stumble toward racial justice. From 1930-1968, white Methodists throughout the church segregated their black co-religionists, silencing black ministers and many white ministers as well, locking their doors to all but their own members. Finally, the combination of civil rights activism and embarrassed Methodist morality persuaded the United Methodists to restore black people to full membership. As the county and church integrated, volunteers from all races began to agitate for a new trial for the chief conspirator of the murders. In 2005, forty-one years after the killings, the accused was found guilty, his fate determined by local jurors who deliberated in a city ringed with casinos, unrecognizable to the old Neshoba. In one sense a spiritual history, the book is a microhistory of Mt. Zion Methodist Church and its struggles with white Neshoba, as a community learned that reconciliation requires a willingness to confront the past fully and truthfully. George draws on interviews with county residents, black and white Methodist leaders, civil rights veterans, and those in civic groups, academia, and state government who are trying to carry the flag for reconciliation. George's sources--printed, oral, and material--offer a compelling account of the way in which residents of a place long reviled as "dark Neshoba" have taken up the task of truth-telling in a world uncomfortable with historical truth.
Carpenter United Methodist Church
Author: James Earl PricePublisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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The First Methodist Church, Columbus, Mississippi, 1860-1960
Author: William Jennings EvansPublisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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