Anderson, Felix

Date:
1978-10-19
Length:
120 minutes
Interviewer:
Chumbley, Kenneth
Transcription available:
yes
Series:
African American Community Interviews
Series ID:
9999_001
Interview Number(s):
__657
__658
Summary:
A retired bishop of the AME Zion Church, the Rev. Felix Anderson discusses his childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Boston, Mass.; his childhood and college education at Livingston College, an AME Zion school in Wilmington, from which he graduated in 1920; seminary training at Hood Theological School and Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; various pastorates and teaching experiences; coming to Louisville in 1948 as pastor of Broadway Temple AME Zion; entering local politics and his election to the Kentucky General Assembly, where he served from 1954 to 1960; and recollections of civil rights work in Alabama during the 1960s.
Topic(s):
African American clergy, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, African American Episcopalians, Legislators--Kentucky, Civil rights--Alabama