Scope and Contents This collection contains biographical information relating to Reverend Curtis W. Harris, Ruth Jones Harris, Hopewell community members and calendars for the Harris family. Included in the collection are documents relating to Reverend Harris’ time spent serving on Hopewell’s City Council, materials from the churches Rev. Harris served, as well as his involvement with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In addition to this material are photo albums, pertaining to church related...

Scope and Contents Records of the Union Baptist Church in Hopewell, Virginia. Items include meeting minutes, Deacon Board minutes and treasury records from 1935-1946. Also are records of newly joined members of the church from 1943- 1945, 1948-1949, and 1958- 1960. The collection also includes by-laws of the Deacon's Board, the first two newsletters of the "Sunday School News" published by Union Baptist, drafts and revisions of "Out of Our Past"; a history of the Union Baptist Church, programs paying...