Archives and Special Collections Department, L. Douglas Wilder Library, Virginia Union University
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Received from Mrs. Florence Marie Hancock, wife of Dr. Gordon Blaine Hancock.
Gordon Blaine Hancock was an educator, journalist, civil rights activist and clergyman. He studied Theology, Economics and Sociology. He was a professor of Economics and Sociology at Virginia Union University in Richmond for approximately 30 years. He retired in 1963 as pastor of the Moore Street Baptist Church after 38 years of dedicated service.
Materials in this collection are congratulatory letters, greeting cards, photographs, miscellaneous scrapbook items, annual reports, teaching materials and oversized pages of laminated clippings. Materials reveal the activities of the Southern Regional Council and Tuskegee Institute. The congratulatory letters are from friends and colleagues on the occasion of Dr. Hancock’s 20th anniversary as pastor of Moore Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. The miscellaneous scrapbook items are mostly paper clippings, postcards and photographs. Dr. Hancock’s teaching materials include course outlines and teaching notes from Virginia Union University in the early 1950s. The oversized pages of laminated clippings are mostly photocopies of Dr. Hancock’s syndicated news column, “Between the Lines.”
The records are arranged chronologically.