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Walter Patten

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A study of Orange County Negroes

Branson, E. C. (Eugene Cunningham), 1861-1933 · 1916

A nine leaf typescript by E. C. Branson (1861-1933), written in 1916 as the introduction to Walter Patten's field study of African American churches and Sunday schools in Orange County, North Carolina. Topics include those churches and Sunday schools and social conditions in the county. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Patten, Walter, 1880-1947. Negro churches and Sunday schools, Orange County, North Carolina: a field study.

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