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 [African Meeting House is ready to open] Original Airdate: 10/9/1987 Length: 00:03:08 Item Type: newstape - edited story master Go to full description for this item. Description : Abstract Carmen Fields reports on the restoration of the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill. Fields reports that the Meeting House is the oldest African American church in the nation and that it was gutted by fire in 1973. Fields interviews Philip Hart (Board of Directors, African Meeting House) and Ruth Batson (Director, African Meeting House) for the report. Hart talks about the significance of the Meeting House. Batson talks about plans for music, scholarly debate, and religious services at the Meeting House. Fields notes that a series of rededication programs will begin soon. Fields' report is accompanied by footage of construction workers and staff at the Meeting House and by photographs documenting the history of African Americans in Boston. Contributor : Reporter Carmen Fields
Subject : Keywords African Americans - History African Meeting House Subject : Personal Names Batson, Ruth Fields, Carmen Hart, Philip Type : Genre News - Television |
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