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Allen Chapel Mollie Crew interview
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| Title | Allen Chapel Mollie Crew interview |
| Description | Notes taken by Knox College Professor of Sociology J. Howell Atwood from an interview with Mollie Crew. The interview topic is the history of Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, specifically about the parsonage and the Allen Chapel Club, a women's fundraising group. |
| Subject | Churches
Fund raising
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| Subject (LCSH) | African Methodist Episcopal Church; |
| Named Person | Crew, Mollie; Johnson, John; Dick, P.S.; Kelly, Minnie; Jackson, May; Huff, Nettie; Anderson, Mrs. Charles; Grigsby, Fannie; |
| Creator | Atwood, Jesse Howell; |
| Time Period | 1930s |
| Type | Text
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| Format | pdf |
| Identifier | J. Howell Atwood Manuscript Collection (box 3) |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | See http://library.knox.edu/digitalcollections/rightsinfo.htm |
| Collection | Struggle and Progress-African Americans in Knox County, Illinois (Knox College) |
| Date Digital | 2012-11-19 |
| Transcript | Mollie Crew
Allen Chapel Parsonage
The lot for the parsonage
was bought from John
Johnson the bus line
owner at the Union Hotel in
the 1880's.
Different ministers
would talk about "some
day we'll have a parsonage, "
but Mr. Dick said we'd
have one, and we did. He
deserves the credit.
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Mollie Crew
Allen Chapel Club
Has functioned to pay church
insurance, finish up parson-
age etc. There are 14 women
who carry this on. Where
repairs are over due, where
insurance would lapse,
where debts go unpaid, they
fill the breech.
Mrs. Minnie Kelly origin
ated this work -- organized
the women. The trustees
were in a tight place - these
women realized in 1933
that an emergency was on.
They dig into their own pock-
ets. They don't turn money
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Allen Chapel Club Mollie Crew
over to officers of the church
but actually pay bills
themselves.
May Jackson Pres. now
Mrs. Nettie Huff VP
Mrs. Chas. Anderson Secy
Mrs. Fannie Grigsby Treas.
They hold picnics, and
have entertainment at
times, but chief reliance
is not on other people --
rather upon themselves for
the money they raise. |
| Physical Description | handwritten on a half sheet of scrap paper |
| Filename | Allen_Chapel_Crew.pdf |
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