MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Campbell, Will Davis, 1924-2013
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1963-1967
Volume: 6 item(s); 8 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Campbell, Will Davis".
Biography
Will Campbell was co-founder and publisher of Katallagete (Greek for "be reconciled!") along with editor Jim Holloway and the Committee of Southern Churchmen (CSC). His views in support of racial equality got him into trouble as a Baptist minister in the south and in campus ministry at the University of Mississippi. In 1956, he became Southern field director the Division of Racial and Cultural Relations for the National Council of Churches (NCC). He had some ideological differences and split with them in 1963, forming with others the Committee of Southern Churchmen from the moribund Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. (Source: Ford, Jennifer. "Will Campbell and Christ's Ambassadors: Selections from the Katallagete/James Y. Holloway Collection, Special Collections, University of Mississippi." The Journal of Southern Religion: August 2000. ‹http://jsr.fsu.edu/ford.htm›, accessed 2005/04/22.)
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Related Information and Links
See also the "Holloway, James" and "Egerton, John" files; and the Katallagete / James Y. Holloway Collection at the University of Mississippi.
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