A Guide to the Dr. Henry H. Mitchell Collection, 1970-1989
A Collection in
Archives and Special Collections Department, L. Douglas Wilder
Library, Virginia Union University
Collection Number MS-0017
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Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processing Information
Finding aid compiled by Suzanne K. Durham, 2002.
Biographical/Historical Note
Henry H. Mitchell was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1919. He was the grandson of Rev. H. H. Mitchell, pastor of Fifth Street Baptist Church in Richmond during the 1880s, and president of the Virginia Baptist State Convention from 1890 to 1899. Henry Mitchell has written five books and coauthored or edited several others. He earned a B.A. from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York, an M.A. from California State University at Fresno, and a Th.D. from the School of Theology at Claremont. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1944. With his wife, Ella, also an ordained minister, Mitchell founded the Ecumenical Center for Black Church Studies in Los Angeles. He has taught at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. In 1982, he was named dean of Virginia Union's School of Theology, a post he held for four years.
The Mitchell's had four children, three of whom are living. Mitchell's books include "Recovery of Preaching" (1977), "Black Preaching" (1979), "Black Preaching, the Recovery of Powerful Art" (1991), "Celebration and Experience in Preaching" (1994), and "Together for Good, Lessons from 55 Years of Marriage" (1999).
Scope and Content
The collection consists primarily of typewritten manuscripts – some with editing marks – for four books and a number of sermons by Dr. Henry H. Mitchell.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Related Material
AV sound recordings Audio #66, #219
Index Terms
- Mitchell, Henry H.
- African American Preaching