JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE PAPERS, #146, 1828-1932
Predominantly professional correspondence, speeches, writings, and subject files
documenting Cheshire's activities as a North Carolina Episcopalian clergyman and bishop,
1878-1932. Cheshire was actively involved in
mission work and concerned with relations with African-American Episcopalians in the Diocese.
Issues of race relations within the Diocese are well documented throughout the collection.
Speeches include "Church and the Negro," ca. 1885, and "Racial
Episcopate," 1916. Subject files cover topics including "St.
Augustine's School," "Convocation Among Colored People," and "Joint Commission on a Racial
Episcopate."
