Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 509

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WITH AN UNPUBLISHED HISTORY OF THE AME CHURCH (RELIGION.) LINK, REV. J.L. Archive of manuscript and printed material. Hundreds of pages of typed and handwritten material, documents, ephemera, photographs, pamphlets, etc., contained in five small archival boxes. should be seen. Vp, 1920s-50s
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Reverend John L. Link was associated with the Mt Hebron African Methodist Episcopal Church of Media, Pennsylvania, first organized in 1837 in a log cabin. Included here are numerous handwritten and typed sermons, minutes to the church elders' meetings, certificates, documents and an unpublished manuscript "Brief Summary of the Origin and History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church." In 1923, Reverend Link was among the chief organizers of the area's first NAACP branch, following the aftermath of an incident in which a white high school girl was assaulted. As it turned out, the guilty party was a mentally challenged Native American boy from a local institution. However, before that was determined, in a knee-jerk reaction, black homes were invaded, crosses were burned and a serious Klan presence began to be felt. Link's five page speech delivered before the resulting NAACP local is present, as are numerous sermons and other talks and articles: "Is suicide ever justifiable?" and a seven page address on the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.