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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the David Frontis Johnson Papers #5749, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jim Johnson in July 2017 (Acc. 103122).

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Processed by: Laura Hart and Amy Morgan, August 2017

Encoded by: Laura Hart, August 2017

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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• Hurricane Hazel, 1954.
• Johnson, David Frontis, 1917-1981.
• Kimball Memorial Lutheran Church (Kannapolis, N.C.)
• Kure Beach (N.C.)--Church history.
• Kure Memorial Lutheran Church (Kure Beach, N.C.)
• Lutheran Church in America.
• Lutheran Church--Sermons.
• North Carolina--Church history--Lutheran.
• Race relations--Religious aspects--Lutheran Church.
• Racism--Southern States--History.
• Sermons.
• Southern States--Race relations.
• United States--Race relations--History.

Chronology adapted from Johnson's biographical note on the website for the North Carolina Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Accessed August 2017).

Mid-twentieth-century sermons and addresses delivered in North Carolina Lutheran churches and other venues, including radio, comprise the majority of white minister David Frontis Johnson's papers. Other collection materials include Johnson's curriculum vita, obituaries, writings, clippings, a card index of biblical passages for use in sermons, slight correspondence, and a small number of printed items pertaining to the Lutheran Church and specific churches where Johnson served in Kannapolis, N.C., and Kure Beach, N.C. Among the writings is an essay written in the mid 1950s and titled "Judgement Begins" in which Johnson discusses race relations between African Americans and whites in the American South and describes a lifetime of conditioning from white privilege and supremacy and his conviction to bring about change.

In another essay titled "The Mighty Hand of God," Johnson describes the preparations for and the impact and aftermath of Hurricane Hazel on Kure Beach, N.C., in 1954.

Although Johnson taught American Sign Language and used it in public worship services, the collection does not reflect his work with the deaf community.

• CF-5749/1
• P-5749/1