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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Edwin McNeill Poteat Papers, #3302, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Edwin McNeill Poteat, June 1957.

Received from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, N.C., March 1959.

Received from Lillian Parker Wallace of Raleigh, N.C., January 1963.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Baptist State Convention of North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Baptists--Clergy--History--20th century.
• Baptists--Missions--China--History--20th century.
• Baptists--Ohio--History--20th century.
• China--Politics and government--1912-1928.
• Clergy--Political activity--United States.
• Cleveland (Ohio)--Church history.
• Colgate Rochester Divinity School--Presidents.
• Conscientious objection--United States--History.
• Euclid Avenue Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)--History.
• Poteat, Edwin McNeill, 1892-1955.
• Pullen Memorial Baptist Church (Raleigh, N.C.)--History.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Church history.
• Sermons, American.
• United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
• World War, 1914-1918--Conscientious objectors.

Edwin McNeill Poteat (1892-1955) was a Baptist preacher, teacher, and missionary in China, 1917-1929; author; president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1944-1948; and pastor at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, N.C., 1929-1937 and 1948-1955; and at Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1937-1944. He also writer on religion and his book entitled Mandate to Humanity: An inquiry into the history and meaning of the Ten Commandments and their relation to contemporary culture was published in 1953 by Abington-Cokesbury Press, Nashville, Tenn.

The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, mainly 1944-1955, and writings of Edward McNeill Poteat. Included are letters, 1925-1929, discussing the Chinese nationalist movement and its effect on missionary work; correspondence with various religious and social action organizations, particularly concerning conscientious objection to World War I and interracial cooperation; and routine office correspondence. Also included are sermons, articles, speeches, and book manuscripts.