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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 20 items) |
Abstract | Robert L. Johnson (Robert L. Johnson Jr.) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1952. In 1954, he was ordained in the United Methodist Church. The following year, Johnson received a master of divinity degree from the Union Theological School in New York City, N.Y. He also received a master of theology degree from the Harvard Divinity School in 1968. In 1957, Johnson was hired as the director of the Wesley Foundation in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he served for 18 years. The collection includes a scrapbook created by Robert L. Johnson primarily about the Reverend Charles Miles Jones, a Chapel Hill, N.C., minister involved in the civil rights movement. The scrapbook contains articles about Reverend Jones's removal from the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill, N.C., by the Orange Presbytery and other articles pertaining to clergy involved in the desegregation movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The collection also contains a dissertation by Andrew Niles McLean entitled "Collective Identity and Institutional Change in the Campus Ministry 1964-1973: Weaving the Cloak of Righteousness" (UCLA, 2000), which includes a chapter on Chapel Hill, and letters to Johnson, including two from Methodist bishops declining to become involved in the 1963 Speaker Ban debate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Creator | Johnson, Robert L. (Robert Leon), 1930- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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Robert L. Johnson graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1952. In 1954, he was ordained in the United Methodist Church. The following year, Johnson received a master of divinity degree from the Union Theological School in New York City, N.Y. He also received a master of theology degree from the Harvard Divinity School in 1968. In 1957, Johnson was hired as the director of the Wesley Foundation in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he served for 18 years. From 1982 to 2001, Johnson was the director of Cornell University's interfaith campus ministry. He also served as president of the National Institute for Campus Ministries, the Association of College and University Religious Affairs, and on the editorial board of the journal Cross Currents. In 1971, Johnson authored a book titled Counter Culture and the Vision of God. In 2001, Johnson retired to Burlington, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes a scrapbook created by Robert L. Johnson primarily about the Reverend Charles Miles Jones, a Chapel Hill, N.C., minister involved in the civil rights movement. The scrapbook contains articles about Reverend Jones's removal from the Presbyterian Church of Chapel Hill by the Orange Presbytery and other articles pertaining to clergy involved in the desegregation movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The collection also contains a dissertation by Andrew Niles McLean, entitled "Collective Identity and Institutional Change in the Campus Ministry 1964-1973: Weaving the Cloak of Righteousness" (UCLA, 2000), which includes a chapter on Chapel Hill, and letters to Johnson, including two from Methodist bishops declining to become involved in the 1963 Speaker Ban debate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
ScrapbookThe scrapbook was created by Robert L. Johnson. It contains newspaper clippings, pictures, and letters about the Reverend Charles Miles Jones, a Chapel Hill, N.C., minister involved in the civil rights movement; articles pertaining to clergy involved in the desegregation movement of the 1950s and 1960s; and other materials. |
Folder 2 |
DissertationThe dissertation was part of the doctoral requirements for Andrew Niles McLean in 2000 at the University of California at Los Angeles. It is titled "Collective Identity and Institutional Change in the Campus Ministry 1964-1973: Weaving the Cloak of Righteousness." Interviews with Robert L. Johnson and other campus ministry workers were integral to the work. Chapter three in particular focuses on Chapel Hill, N.C. |
Folder 3 |
Other PapersIncludes a copy of "Dr. Shrader's Statement to the Congregation" on desegregation, with comments by an unknown person; a letter concerning a march on Washington, D.C., to protest war in Vietnam; and two letters to Robert L. Johnson from Methodist bishops declining to become involved in the 1963 Speaker Ban debate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |