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Title: Warren Moore audio recordings collection
Dates: 1972-2002
Collection number: MS 172
Creator:
Moore, Warren
Collection Size:
1633 cassette tapes
(48 cassette boxes)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Warren Moore Audio Recordings Collection consists of 1633 audiocassettes of church sermons, funeral programs, business
meetings, prayer clinics, bible lessons, radio broadcasts of sermons on KRE and KDIA, sermons delivered at the annual Oakland
City Revival, religious humor and music, business seminars, speeches delivered at the Democratic National Convention and interviews
with members of the Moore family related to the family’s history between 1972-2002.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Warren Moore Audio Recordings Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum
& Library at Oakland.
Warren Moore audio recordings collection, MS 172, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland,
California.
The Warren Moore Audio Recordings Collection was donated to the African American Museum & Library at Oakland in November 2014
by Deitra Atkins.
Processed by Sean Heyliger, July 12, 2016.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Warren Moore Audio Recordings Collection consists of 1633 audiocassettes of church sermons, funeral programs, business
meetings, prayer clinics, bible lessons, radio broadcasts of sermons on KRE and KDIA, sermons delivered at the annual Oakland
City Revival, religious humor and music, business seminars, speeches delivered at the Democratic National Convention and interviews
with members of the Moore family related to the family’s history between 1972-2002. The collection is organized into seven
series: I) Church recordings, II) Funeral Programs, III) Moore family history, IV) Business education V) Music, VI) Democratic
National Conventions, VII) Assorted.
The bulk of the collection consists of sermons and church programs of African American Baptist churches in Oakland, California,
including church recordings at Friendship Baptist Church, Evergreen Baptist Church, and Allen Temple Baptist Church. Sermons
and church programs are organized by church and chronologically by date thereafter. The collection includes sermons by many
pastors from Oakland and visiting pastors from Texas and Illinois including Michael L. Moore, J.L. Richard, Frank Pinkard
Jr., C.A.W. Clark, J. Alfred Smith Sr., Jeremiah Wright Jr., and E.K. Bailey. Church recordings also include sermons delivered
at the annual Oakland City Revival at Baptist churches in Oakland and at the Oakland Auditorium. Many of the sermons document
the social and spiritual concerns of African American pastors in Oakland, California in the 1970s-1990s.
Series I. Church recordings
A. Sermons / church services
B. Church programs
C. Oakland City Revival
D. Conferences
E. Radio broadcasts
F. Music
G. Humor
H. Assorted
Series II. Funeral programs
Series III. Moore family history
Series IV. Business education
Series V. Music
Series VI. Democratic National Conventions
Series VII. Assorted
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Bailey, E. K., 1945-.
Smith, J. Alfred (James Alfred).
Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr.
Allen Temple Baptist Church (Oakland, Calif.)
Evergreen Baptist Church (Oakland, Calif.)
Friendship Baptist Church (Oakland, Calif.)
African American churches--California.
African Americans--California--History.
African American preaching--California.
Baptists--California--Oakland.
Oakland (Calif.)--Church history.
Oakland (Calif.)--History.
Revivals--California.