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Oral history interview with LeRoy Haynes, Jr. [Sound Recording 03]
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- 2018-12-05 (Creation)
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WAVE (format); 01:12:42
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The Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr. was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1949. He attended Houston-Tillotson University in Austin, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas. Also in Texas, he was a youth organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a field organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and a co-organizer of the Black Panther Party. Haynes earned a master's degree in theology from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a doctorate of ministry from Brite Theological Seminary. He became the senior pastor of Allen Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon, as well as presiding elder of the Alaska & Oregon/Washington Districts and in the Alaska-Pacific Region of the 9th Episcopal District. He also became vice president of the Albina Ministerial Alliance in Portland and chair of the AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform. He served on the board of the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, and became its president in 2012.
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Session 3. This oral history interview with the Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr., was conducted by Jan Dilg at Haynes’ office in Portland, Oregon, from October 8 to December 5, 2018. Haynes was nominated by Oregonians to be interviewed as part of a program by the Oregon Historical Society Research Library to enhance and expand the range of voices in the library's collections. Interviewees are selected from the pool of nominees by a staff committee appointed by the historical society's executive director. The interview was conducted in three sessions. In the third interview session, conducted on December 5, 2018, Haynes discusses serving as president of the North Portland Bible College. He talks about his involvement with the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and his continued activism. He reflects on the challenges he faced as a civil rights activist, and how he applied the lessons he learned during that time to his community activism in Portland. He also talks about the different forms that racism takes, particularly describing the difference between his experiences in Texas and Oregon. He discusses his book, “God's Prophet in Non-Violence: The Theology and Philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” and talks about what he hopes readers take from it. He closes the interview by talking about his work with the Allen Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church at the time of the interview, awards he’s received, and his hopes for the future.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
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- Dilg, Janice (Janice Lynn) (Contributor)