ELIZABETH R. GUTCH. COLLECTION, 1870-1996. 1 folder.

Elizabeth Gutch is Chairperson, Historical Committee, South Dakota Conference of United Church of Christ.  Materials include the following: The Roll of Pupils: 1870-1930, Santee Normal Training School, Santee Nebraska, a listing of Native Ministers of the Dakota Presbytery to 1988, a listing of Congregational Dakota Pastors (Ordained, Lay and Licensed) from 1870-1996, and a copy of a presentation of Gutch's "Lady Missionaries and Teachers to the Dakota Indians 1870-1887," with xerographic copies of photographs.

MORDECAI JOHNSON. COLLECTION. ca. 1930s-1980s. 4.0 linear feet.

Mordecai Johnson was a member of Central Congregational UCC and embalmer for the Geddes Funeral Home in New Orleans.  Items stored at Central by Mr. Johnson’s family were donated to Amistad in 1999.  The collection includes jazz, blues and big band LP records, reel to reel tapes, and photographs.

BRENDA SUSAN BILLIPS SQUARE, 1953-. COLLECTION, 1981-1996. 1.4 linear feet and 1 OS.

Brenda Square, Head of Archives at the Amistad Research Center, currently serves as corporate member, in the education division of the Board for Homeland Ministries of the United Church of Christ. She holds a BA degree in Political Science from the University of New Orleans, a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from Tulane University and a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University. In 1993, she traveled with members of Christian Fellowship U.C.C. of San Diego, California, to visit U.C.C. partners in southern Africa (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa). The collection contains photographs, and collected publications from United Black Christians U.C.C., the African National Congress, the Institute for Contextual Theology, Zimbabwe Council of Churches, and South Africa’s Pastoral Plan for Transformation.  Other items include minutes, agendas, reports, and correspondence relating to activities of the New Orleans Association, U.C.C., and Beecher Memorial U.C.C., where she has served as a member of the Trustee Board (1984-1996), Board Chairman (1991-1994) and Moderator (1996-1998).

FLORENCE BROOKS THORNTON. COLLECTION, 1914-1935. 0.4 linear feet and 1 flat box.

Adlay Roberts is a member of the Church Council of Beecher Memorial U.C.C., and former member of the Morris Brown Congregational Church.  Ms. Roberts donated the papers of her aunt, Florence Brooks Thornton.  Morris Brown; was a one of the first Congregational churches established by the A.M.A. in New Orleans.  This collection includes a 1928 Christmas letter from the Reverend Dr. H.L. Lang to the members of Morris Brown, programs, and the minute book of the Mission Society, which chronicles congregational meetings in 1935.  An addition to the collection includes a 1934 program for the annual concert from the sixty-fifth annual meeting of the Louisiana Congregational Conference held at Beecher Memorial Congregational Church in New Orleans, and Congregational Manual and Rules of Order by William E. Barton (1914).