Immediate past Executive Director, Dr. Deborah Van Broekhoven, will give a lecture on New Era Baptist Institutes: A Nineteenth-Century Path Toward Cooperation on Friday, September 30, at 7 p.m in the second floor auditorium of Mercer University’s (Atlanta Campus) Atlanta Administration and Conference Center, 2930 Flowers Road S., Atlanta.
As part of the annual History Event sponsored by ABHS, Van Broekhoven will explore the challenges experienced by black and white Baptists who cooperated to sponsor New Era Baptist Institutes, short term schools for African-American church leaders. Conceived by Northern and Southern Baptist leaders after their Fortress Monroe meeting in 1894, these schools across the south provide a rare example of black and white leaders working together.
This event is free and open to the public. See our web page for directions to the AACC.
Dr. Van Broekhoven is the immediate past Executive Director of the American Baptist Historical Society. She holds a doctorate in history from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and served as a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University before joining the staff of ABHS as Executive Director in 1998. She has had a longstanding interest in the history of race relations, beginning with her book The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island Women in the Antislavery Network.
