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H1842 Cape May, NJ. Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church in which the Delaware (colored) Conference was held April 1918.

H1844 Bishop Mitchell and his cabinet. Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Delaware (Colored) Conference. April 1918. Cape May, New Jersey

H1951 Day nursery connected with Saint Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church. Chicago. Rev. J. W. Robinson, Pastor. This church without outside help supports a day nursery.

H1952 The store in which St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Chicago. Pastor standing in front

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H2101 Negro cabins in the Bayou Region, Louisiana.

H2103 Short term Negro convicts working the roads. Their food is corn
bread, bad molasses with a little salt pork twice a day, with beans at
noon. White prisoners serving less than a year are put on same program.
Tennessee.

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H2329 Negro Church, Brook Haven District, Mississippi

H2330 Negro Church, Brook Haven, Mississippi

H2331 Negro Church, Brook Haven, Mississippi

H2332 Church awaiting Red Cross Drive. Brook Haven District, Mississippi.
Red Cross Committees made up of white merchants from adjoining villages
appeared at this Colored church and compelled them to accept the Red Cross
program and subscribe to Red Cross Fund under penalty of being branded as
slackers.

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H2333 Negro Church, Brook Haven District, Mississippi

H2334 Negro School, Brook Haven District, Mississippi. This school will
ultimately be the center of a wide educational effort.

H2335 Negro Church, Brook Haven District, Mississippi.

H2336 Church and Parsonage, Brook Haven District, Mississippi. It is an
example of what a pastor can accomplish when he gets hold of his community
by identifying himself with their home and farm problems.

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H2337 Sabbath School just out. (Note that the window panes are also out.)

H2338 Negro Church congregation in the Black Belt of Mississippi, Brook
Haven District, Mississippi.

H2339 Negro School, Brook Haven, Mississippi.

H2340 Negro School, Brook Haven, Mississippi.

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H2341 Negro School, Brook Haven, Mississippi.

H2342 Negro Parsonage, Brook Haven, Mississippi.

H2343 Negro Parsonage, Brook Haven, Mississippi.

H2344 Church and Schoohouse, Brook Haven, Mississippi.

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H2345 Parsonage of a prosperous negro church, Brook Haven, Miss.

H2346 Parsonage of a preacher in the remote districts, Brook Haven, Miss.
In order to gain a living, this preacher has to run and till a 60 acre
farm, and the result is pastoral visits are few and far between. The
people complain they see little of their preacher in their homes. His
influence amounts to practically nothing in the community.

H2347 A school house in a remote district, Brook Haven, Miss.

H2348 A church in the back districts, Brook Haven, Miss.

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H2349 Negro parsonage. This preacher and his family can not subsist on
the meagre salary paid by his congregation. He has to supplement his
income by farming. Brook Haven, Miss.

H2350

H2351

H2352 Row of Magnolias, Atlanta, Ga.