Indexed works
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
By Charles M. Jones
Oral history interview with Charles M. Jones, November 8, 1976: interview B-0041, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Jones, Charles Miles · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
A longer Southern Oral History Program interview with Presbyterian minister Charles M. Jones (1906-1993), recorded November 8, 1976, by Joseph A. Herzenberg. Jones traces his civil rights work in Chapel Hill from the 1930s into the 1960s. He characterizes town and university leaders, Frank Porter Graham among them, as cautiously liberal on race, willing to allow a little integration at performances and student activities, and describes the church's place in the town's social conflicts. Published online in 2008 in Documenting the American South.
Oral history interview with Charles M. Jones, July 21, 1990: interview A-0335, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Jones, Charles Miles · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Rev. Charles M. Jones (1906-1993), minister of Chapel Hill's Presbyterian church in the late 1940s, and his wife Dorcas talk with John Egerton in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded July 21, 1990. Jones spends most of the hour on the disputes his stand on race provoked, when the regional presbytery objected to his conduct of the church, and his dealings with university president Frank Porter Graham. Published online in 2006 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.
A statement by Charles M. Jones on the occasion of his withdrawing from the Presbyterian ministry : delivered at the summer meeting, Orange Presbytery, Synod of North Carolina, Presbyterian Church of the United States, held at New Hope Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 6, 1953.
Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993 · 1953 · C.M. Jones
Charles Miles Jones set out his reasons for leaving the Presbyterian ministry in this statement, delivered to the summer meeting of Orange Presbytery at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill on July 6, 1953. Jones had served the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church. He printed it himself in 1953, 22 pages.
Charles Miles Jones papers, 1924-1990s.
Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993 · 1924
Charles Miles Jones, 1906 to 1993, a Presbyterian minister in Chapel Hill, left these papers covering 1924 into the 1990s, about 1,800 items in 2.5 linear feet, collection 5168 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The papers concern civil rights and segregation in North Carolina, the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, the Community Church of Chapel Hill, the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, and names including Frank Porter Graham and Bayard Rustin.
About Charles M. Jones
Faith, Grace and Heresy
Pryor, Mark · 2002 · Writer's Showcase
Mark Pryor's biography of the Rev. Charles M. Jones (1906-1993), minister of the Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill. It explores his life in relation to civil rights work, race relations and the religious response to racism in the town. Published by Writer's Showcase, San Jose, in 2002, xii and 398 pages with illustrations.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
Bible belt justice in the southern part of heaven
2001 · GK Productions
Half-hour video from GK Productions, released in Chapel Hill in 2001, centered on Charles M. Jones, the minister whose Presbyterian congregation and the later Community Church of Chapel Hill both figure in it, along with civil rights movements and racism in the town. Color with black and white sequences.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
The controversy between Charles Miles Jones and Orange Presbytery, 1952-53 : thesis
Johnston, Edward F., 1879-1919 · 1995 · Thesis for the University of Virginia
A thesis on the controversy between Charles Miles Jones and Orange Presbytery in 1952 and 1953, the dispute that ended his ministry at the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church. The text was reprinted in 1995 with excerpts from Jones' sermons added for the dedication of the Charles M. Jones Community Building on September 24 of that year. One volume of various pagings, with a portrait.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
Orange Presbytery vs. Jones
Ruark, Henry Gibbons, 1908-1970 · 1953 · Christian Century Foundation
Henry Gibbons Ruark's article on the case of Orange Presbytery against Charles Miles Jones of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, printed in the Christian Century for March 18, 1953 and detached from that issue. Two pages. The dispute belongs to Presbyterian church history in North Carolina, and the presbytery takes its name from the county.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
Summary by Frank P. Graham of his written and spoken statements on the case of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church : January 24, 1953.
Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972 · 1953 · F.P. Graham
Frank Porter Graham, the former president of the University of North Carolina, gathered his written and spoken statements on the case of the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church and its minister Charles M. Jones into a nine-leaf summary dated January 24, 1953. The dispute touched Presbyterians in Chapel Hill and the town's race relations.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
Robert L. Johnson papers, 1952-2000.
Johnson, Robert L. (Robert Leon), 1930- · 1952
About twenty items kept as the papers of Robert Leon Johnson, born 1930, spanning 1952 to 2000, half a linear foot, collection 5362 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include civil rights work in Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Speaker Ban Law, chaplains and religion at the University of North Carolina, the Wesley Foundation, the Presbytery of Orange, and Charles Miles Jones.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
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Fellowship of Southern Churchmen records, 1937-1986.
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen · 1937
Organizational records of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, 1937 to 1986, roughly 13,000 items in twelve linear feet, collection 3479 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. The records concern churches, social problems and race relations in the South, including material relating to Howard Kester, Nelle Morton, Charles Miles Jones and David S. Burgess. Black Mountain and Chapel Hill both appear as places. A preservation microfilm was made in 1985.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
Joseph W. Straley papers, 1936-2002.
Straley, Joseph W., 1914- · 1936
Joseph W. Straley, born 1914, taught at the University of North Carolina, and his papers, about 600 items in a linear foot and a half spanning 1936 to 2002, are in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5252. Diaries and other primary material cover academic freedom and the Speaker Ban Law, civil rights work and segregation, the Community Church of Chapel Hill, Charles Miles Jones and Howard Lee.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Charles Miles, 1906-1993.
