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Benjamin F. Bunn, Papers, 1980-1990, Accession #10962, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
These papers were given to the Library by Mrs. Imogene Bunn on June 18, 1990.
This collection of about twenty items, 1980-1990, all pertain to the religious and civic career of the Rev. Benjamin Bunn (1906-1989) pastor of First Baptist Church of Charlottesville, Virginia, for thirty- six years, and organizer of The Charlottesville Inter-Racial Commission, The Church Council on Human Relations, and the Charlottesville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Individual items include: programs for the 36th Anniversary of the Rev. Bunn's ministry at First Baptist Church (1980) and a resolution concerning his retirement (1981), the Virginia Union University Alumni Association Banquet, Benjamin F. Bunn Chapter (1989), and funeral service for the Rev. Bunn (1989); newsclippings concerning the Rev. Bunn as a recipient of the Roy Wilkins Award and obituaries in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune ; an eulogy for the Rev. Bunn by Richard I. McKinney (1989); an interview with Mrs. Imogene Bunn conducted by Michael Plunkett (1990); and letters from Mayor Francis L. Buck (1985), Allix B. James, Chancellor of Virginia Union University (1989), and two letters concerning the film The Road to Brown (1990).