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Resource Type:	Photographs
Language:	English
Location:	P35259
Date:	19380731
Author/Creator:	Acme Newspictures (New York, NY). More by Creator Search Periodicals Using this Creator
Title:	Father Divine. [P35259]
Format:	black and white 7x9 None
Description:	Copyrighted Description: a group of Father Divine's followers in a parade in the Bronx and Harlem; July 31, 1938. Caption with the photo says: FATHER DIVINE'S FOLLOWERS PARADE THROUGH HARLEM NEW YORK CITY--A GENERAL VIEW OF PART OF THE PARADE STAGED THROUGH THE STREETS OF HARLEM AND INTO THE BRONX BY 2,5000 FOLLOWERS OF FATHER DIVINE, HARLEM 'MESSIAH,' JULY 31ST. GREEN-SKIRTED 'ANGELS' IN WHITE BLOUSES ARE PICTURED LEADING THE PARADE WITH BANNERS TELLING THAT PEACE IS WONDERFUL AND PRAISING THE GREATER GLORY OF FATHER DIVINE. THE SINGING, CHANTING DISCIPLES PUT ON A JUBILIANT [sic] SHOW FOR THEIR LEADER, WHO BEAMED FROM HIS THRONE-LIKE SEAT ON HIS HUGE AUTOMOBILE AS THE 'ANGELS' MARCHED THROUGH THE HOT STREETS.
Subject:	Father Divine. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Afro-American clergy. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject New York--Harlem. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject
Date Cataloged:	02/17/2022

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