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Title: Phillips Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1963
Alternative Title: "Churches, Negro in Los Angeles" from Binder compiled by Miriam Matthews
Contributor: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Phillips Temple C. M. E. Church was established in 1915. The Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church is a historically black denomination within the broader context of Methodism. It's also occasionally considered to be a mainline denomination. The group was organized on December 16, 1870 in Jackson, Tennessee, by several black ministers, with the full support of their white sponsors. They called this fellowship the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, which it remained until their successors adopted the current name in the 1950s.
Group portrait of the congregation of Phillips Temple C. M. E. Church, a gathering of approximately 70 African Americans on the front steps of the church (971 E. 43rd St.).
Photographer's stamp on back of photo: Please credit photo / by / Harry H. Adams / 4223 So. Avalon Blvd. AD 2-9497 / Los Angeles, Calif. / Photographer's date stamp: July 1963
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b18_f03_008a.tif
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Subject: African American churches
Phillips Temple C. M. E. Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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