SILAS MCBEE PAPERS, #2455, 1872-1923
Worldwide correspondence with church and national leaders of McBee, native of North
Carolina, active Episcopal layman, author, editor of The Churchman in New York
City, and founder of the Constructive Quarterly. Letters concern McBee's editing
activities; church organizations, conferences, and architecture; the University of the South;
foreign missions; Christian world unity; and the application of the social gospel to American
political and international affairs, including racial tensions. Contains references to
missionary work among the black population (1899); lynchings and
Booker T. Washington (1902); and black troops in the Civil War (1906).