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Resource Type:	Photographs
Language:	English
Location:	P30567
Date:	1938
Author/Creator:	International News Photo. More by Creator Search Periodicals Using this Creator
Title:	Father Divine. [P30567]
Format:	black and white 6x8 None
Description:	Copyrighted Description: Press photo of Father Divine speaking before a group of people in Milton, New York; 1938. Photo is stamped Aug. 11, 1938. Caption reads: 'HEAVEN'S HIS DESTINATION: MILTON, N.Y.... STOPPING OFF ON THE WAY TO HIS NEWEST 'HEAVEN' AT KRUM ELBOW, N.Y., FATHER DIVINE - 'GOD' TO A BIG SLICE OF HARLEM - IS SHOWN ADDRESSING HIS 3,000 PILGRMS AT ANOTHER OF HIS 'EDENS' IN THE FORMER ARTISTS' COLONY IN MILTON, N.Y. DIVINE TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS - 'THERE ARE THOSE WHO SHOULD BE EARNING THEIR LIVING WHO ARE ON THE DOLE. THIS MAKES THEM IMPRACTICAL, INUSEFUL AND GOOD FOR NOTHING. WE MEAN TO LIFT UP A STANDARD THAT CAN'T BE CRITICIZED. BY MY SYSTEM WE WOULD OVERCOME ALL DEPRESSIONS IN ALL COUNTRIES AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE A WELFARE.' STUFFED WITH FRIED CHIDKEN, WATER MELON, APPLE PIE AND ICE CREAM. THE PILGRIMS RESPONDED WITH WITH 'SO SWEET, FATHER, SO REAL, SO REAL, SO GLAD.'
Subject:	Father Divine. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject Afro-American clergy. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject New York--Milton. More by Subject Search Periodicals Using this Subject
Date Cataloged:	01/26/2016

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