Annual New England AME Conference minutes collection

Collection — Container: Box 1

Identifier: MS 025.013

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains booklets from eleven New England A.M.E Annual Conference meetings. These include seven ‘Journal of Proceedings’ and five ‘Minutes of the Annual Sessions”. These all take place between 1919-1930, the 68th-79th Annual Conferences.

There are two other A.M.E related materials: The 28th General Conference A.M.E Church Official Programme, dated May 7-25, 1928, and the A.M.E Church Booklet: The Review Published Quarterly Issue #242, dated April-June 1970.

The items in this collection came from the Mount Zion A.M.E. Church in Newport. There is some minor smoke damage to the booklets due to the 1974 fire at the church.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found within 1919-1930, 1970

Conditions Governing Access

RIBHS staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

Conditions Governing Use

RIBHS staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.

Biographical / Historical

The Annual New England A.M.E Church Conference is one of seven regional conferences within the first Episcopal District. The Elder district of Hartford-Boston oversees the Annual New England conference. The conference spans three states, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, with different churches being selected to host the conference. Rhode Island chapters of the A.M.E Church have hosted the conference twice. First at Bethel A.M.E Providence, June 1-5, 1921 and at Mount Zion Church in Newport, Rhode Island, May 26-29, 1926.