Box 3
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Congratulatory decree, Ohio House of Representatives, 1978
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
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Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1978
"Freeing the Spirit" concert, 1971 August 19
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1971 August 19
Black bishops' cross commission and presentation, 1977
File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
In preparation for the consecration of Joseph Howze as bishop of Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1977 -- the first Black Bishop to head a diocese -- Rivers said that it occurred to him that the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC) should make a significant symbolic gift to both Bishop Howze and Bishop Harold Perry (who was ordained a bishop in 1966). He explained his idea to David Camele, a longtime friend and gifted artist, to superimpose Rivers' Black Spirit dove on a square cross in red,...
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Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1977
Impact!, National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC) newspaper, 1979-1982
File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
The 1979 issue highlighted the agenda for NOBC’s Crucial Conference, the Conference on Apostolate in the Black Community, including excerpts from papers of five of the presentations to be given at the conference, one of which was Rivers' "State of the Liturgy in the Black Catholic Community." The other presentations were "The Black Catholic Family" by Edwin Nichols, "Catholic Schools: Education in the Black Community" by Dolores Harroll and Josita Colbert; "Church's Ministry Among Black...
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Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1979-1982
News articles and interviews, 1950-2009
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1950-2009
Consecration of Harold R. Perry as bishop, newspaper clippings, 1966
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1966
For My People, newsletter of lay Black Catholics in Detroit, 1979 March
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1979 March
Profile of Stimuli, Inc., Catholic Telegraph, 1990 December 21
File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1990 December 21
Mount St. Mary of the West seminary, class of 1956, photographs, 1956
File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1956
Ordination portraits, photographs, 1956
File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1956
Grailville, Loveland, Ohio, photographs and letter, 1974, 1994
File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Rivers wrote that Grailville was a place that he escaped to find renewal. It was located on rural farmland in Loveland, Ohio. He and the members of the Grail collaborated on numerous reading and liturgies together as well as spiritual retreats. It was at Grailville that Rivers recorded the An American Mass Program with the help of the Grail members and his students from Purcell High School, the Queen's Men. He formed a lifelong friendship with the members of...
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Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1974, 1994
"Freeing the Spirit: Celebrating the music and legacy of Father Clarence Joseph Rivers, Jr., PhD", tribute concert, 2005 October 21
File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
2005 October 21
An American Mass Program, organ and cantor edition, second edition, 1968
File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1968
A Mass dedicated to the brotherhood of man, large format score with five arrangements, 1970
File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1970
"A meditation for the opening of Cincinnati's City Council", 1973 December 1
File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collected papers of Clarence Joseph Rivers, documenting his activities as a priest, liturgist, composer, and public speaker. His impact on American Catholic life, particularly that of Black Catholics, is reflected in his awards, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. His ministry and professional engagement papers document his involvement with organizations such as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Program, the National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC), Purcell High School, and Stimuli,...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1973 December 1