J. McRee Elrod, the Glossary
Jefferson McRee Elrod (23 March 1932 – 16 June 2016) was a librarian, cataloguer, and Methodist and Unitarian minister.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Abel Muzorewa, Adolf von Harnack, African Methodist Episcopal Church, American Library Association, Another Mother for Peace, Bill Richardson (broadcaster), British Columbia, Canadian Unitarian Council, Central Methodist University, Civil rights movement, Confederate States of America, Dewey Decimal Classification, Fats Waller, Freedom Riders, Gainesville, Georgia, Greenpeace, Hangul, Highlander Research and Education Center, James Lawson (activist), Jefferson Davis, Jim Crow laws, Korea under Japanese rule, Korean War, LGBT pride, Library of Congress Classification, MARC standards, Metchosin, Methodism, Montgomery bus boycott, Ohio Wesleyan University, Online public access catalog, Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, Pauline Christianity, Phi Beta Kappa, Rex Weyler, Rosa Parks, Scarritt College for Christian Workers, Short Time, Special library, Student Volunteer Movement, The Butler, Unitarianism, University of British Columbia, University of Georgia, Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development, We Shall Overcome, Yonsei University, 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak.
- American drug policy reform activists
- Canadian Unitarian Universalists
- Christian missionaries in Korea
- LGBT Unitarian Universalists
- People from the Capital Regional District
- Unitarian Universalist clergy
Abel Muzorewa
Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (14 April 1925 – 8 April 2010), also commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa, was a Zimbabwean bishop and politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979.
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Adolf von Harnack
Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack (born Harnack; 7 May 1851 – 10 June 1930) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian.
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.
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American Library Association
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.
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Another Mother for Peace
Another Mother for Peace (AMP) is a grass-roots anti-war advocacy group founded in 1967 in opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam.
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Bill Richardson (broadcaster)
Bill Richardson (born 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian radio broadcaster and author. J. McRee Elrod and Bill Richardson (broadcaster) are Canadian gay writers.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.
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Canadian Unitarian Council
The Canadian Unitarian Council (Conseil unitarien du Canada) (CUC) is a liberal religious association of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations in Canada.
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Central Methodist University
Central Methodist University (formerly known as Central Methodist College and also known as Central College or CMU) is a private university in Fayette, Missouri.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
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Dewey Decimal Classification
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject.
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Fats Waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and singer.
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. J. McRee Elrod and Freedom Riders are activists for African-American civil rights.
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Gainesville, Georgia
Gainesville is a city and the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.
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Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Hangeul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
Highlander Research and Education Center
The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee.
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James Lawson (activist)
James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 9, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. J. McRee Elrod and James Lawson (activist) are activists for African-American civil rights.
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Jefferson Davis
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
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Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.
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Korea under Japanese rule
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (Hanja: 朝鮮, Korean: 조선), the Japanese reading of Joseon.
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Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
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LGBT pride
LGBT pride (also known as gay pride or simply pride) is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group.
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Library of Congress Classification
The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library.
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MARC standards
MARC (machine-readable cataloging) is a standard set of digital formats for the machine-readable description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books, DVDs, and digital resources.
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Metchosin
The District of Metchosin is a municipality and community in Greater Victoria on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
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Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Ohio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio.
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Online public access catalog
The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries.
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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began with demonstrations in 1965 against the escalating role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
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Pauline Christianity
Pauline Christianity or Pauline theology (also Paulism or Paulanity), otherwise referred to as Gentile Christianity, is the theology and form of Christianity which developed from the beliefs and doctrines espoused by the Hellenistic-Jewish Apostle Paul through his writings and those New Testament writings traditionally attributed to him.
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Phi Beta Kappa
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.
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Rex Weyler
Rex Weyler (born September 10, 1947) is an American-Canadian author, journalist and ecologist.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. J. McRee Elrod and Rosa Parks are activists for African-American civil rights.
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Scarritt College for Christian Workers
Scarritt College for Christian Workers was a college associated with the United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Short Time
Short Time is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Gregg Champion.
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Special library
A special library is a library that provides specialized information resources on a particular subject, serves a specialized and limited clientele, and delivers specialized services to that clientele.
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Student Volunteer Movement
The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization founded in 1886 that sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service abroad.
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The Butler
The Butler (full title Lee Daniels' The Butler) is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels and with a screenplay by Danny Strong.
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Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a nontrinitarian branch of Christianity.
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University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada.
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University of Georgia
The University of Georgia (UGA or Georgia) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States.
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Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development
Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development (also known as Vanderbilt Peabody College, Peabody College, or simply Peabody) is the education school of Vanderbilt University, a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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We Shall Overcome
"We Shall Overcome" is a gospel song that is associated heavily with the U.S. civil rights movement.
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Yonsei University
Yonsei University is a Christian private university in Seoul, South Korea.
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1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak
On April 5–6, 1936, an outbreak of 14 (or more) tornadoes struck the Southeastern United States, killing at least 454 people (with 419 of those deaths caused by just two tornadoes) and injuring at least 2,500 others.
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See also
American drug policy reform activists
- A. Robert Kaufman
- Ajamu Baraka
- Andrew Weil
- Aubri Esters
- Augustus Sol Invictus
- Barry Cooper (activist)
- Carl Hart
- Carol Ruth Silver
- Chuck Baldwin
- Cliff Thornton
- David Boaz
- David C. Lewis (physician)
- David F. Duncan
- David Simon
- Dennis Kucinich
- Ethan Nadelmann
- Flora Dungan
- George Soros
- J. McRee Elrod
- Jeff Burk
- Jesse Stout
- Jim Gray (jurist)
- John Gilmore (activist)
- John McAfee
- Kevin Verville
- Kevin Zeese
- Mark Thornton
- Mary Ruwart
- Michael Badnarik
- Mike Gravel
- Milton Friedman
- Paul Craig Roberts
- Radley Balko
- Ralph Nader
- Rand Paul
- Randy Credico
- Richard Bonnie
- Rocky Anderson
- Ron Paul
- Ryan Grim
- Susan Burton
- Tenacious D
- Thomas Nicholson (educator)
- Tim Ryan (recovery advocate)
- Tonie Nathan
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Walter Cronkite
- William F. Buckley Jr.
Canadian Unitarian Universalists
- Aislinn Clancy
- Anita Hagen
- Bruce Hyer
- David Chernushenko
- Dawud Wharnsby
- Eustace Haydon
- J. McRee Elrod
- Jessica Holmes
- Michael Cassidy (Canadian politician)
Christian missionaries in Korea
LGBT Unitarian Universalists
- Dorothy McRae-McMahon
- J. McRee Elrod
- James Stoll
- Jay Fisette
- Laci Green
- Sofía Betancourt
- Starhawk
People from the Capital Regional District
- Bob Rock
- Brett Gaylor
- Charles Lillard
- Corey William Large
- Dan Jason
- David Day (Canadian author)
- Dean Murdock
- Elisabeth Margaret Hopkins
- Elizabeth May
- Erinne Willock
- Fred Haynes
- Gary Lunn
- Gerald Kazanowski
- Glen Suitor
- Iain Brambell
- J. McRee Elrod
- Kevin Bazzana
- Kiana Swift
- Lana Popham
- Lorna Marsden
- Mary Kitagawa
- Matt Irwin
- Moka Only
- Murray Coell
- P. K. Page
- Patrick Crofton
- Patrick deWitt
- Robert Majzels
- Ron Devion
- Tim Frick
Unitarian Universalist clergy
- Dana McLean Greeley
- David Hilliard Eaton
- Debra Haffner
- Forrest Church
- Fred Small (singer-songwriter)
- George Exoo
- George Huntston Williams
- J. McRee Elrod
- James Ishmael Ford
- James Luther Adams
- James Reeb
- Jeremy Taylor (dream worker)
- John A. Buehrens
- John B. Wolf (pastor)
- Lewis Allen McGee
- Mark Kiyimba
- Peter Morales
- Robert Fulghum
- Slim Moon
- Sofía Betancourt
- Susan Frederick-Gray
- Vern Barnet
- William F. Schulz
- William G. Sinkford
- Yvonne Seon