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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 Chapel Hill Council of Churches Records, #3596-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 1962.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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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• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Religion--20th century.
• Chapel Hill Council of Churches (N.C.)
• Christian education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Interdenominational cooperation--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• International relief--History--20th century.
• Local councils of churches--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Mann, Mary Jane.
• Missions--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Vacation schools, Christian--North Carolina--History--20th century.

The Chapel Hill Council fo Churches was an interdenominational organization established in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1947.

The collection includes records and a brief history of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches. Records include several drafts of a constitution; correspondence; minutes for some years; reports of activities and projects, such as overseas relief drives, vacation Bible School, Christian Education Institutes, radio and film offerings, cooperative religious services, and mission study programs; and financial records. The history was written in 1960 by Mary Jane (Mrs. Robert W.) Mann, and is accompanied by letters written to her while she was writing it.