Description
Consists of correspondence, sermons, and other
papers of Haynes, a Baptist clergyman active in church affairs and civil rights; his
second wife, Charlie Mae (Crawford) Lomax Haynes, a singer, church worker, and
successful candidate for the School Board, who was employed by the San Francisco
Dept. of Social Services; and his son by his first marriage, Frederick Douglas
Haynes, Jr., also a Baptist clergyman active in the Third Baptist Church. Also
contains material related to the Third Baptist Church, the largest Black
congregation in Northern California, including its history, annual reports and
financial records, and other papers.
Background
Reverend Frederick Douglas Haynes was born in 1899 in Talcott, West Virginia.
Orphaned at the age of four, he was raised by his sister in Pennsylvania. He began
working at the age of ten and supported himself through high school by working in a
bakery. In the early 1920s Haynes moved to Los Angeles, California where he attended
Biola Institute, a Baptist Bible College. Licensed as a preacher by the age of
seventeen, he organized the first junior church in California while serving as an
assistant pastor in Los Angeles.Charlie Mae Crawford was born in Calvert, Texas in the early 1920's. Her father,
Charlie Crawford, was a cement finisher. Her mother, Julia Orum Crawford, was a
domestic maid. Although her early schooling took place in Groesbeck,Texas, her
family moved to California when she was eleven years old. She graduated from Thomas
Jefferson High School in Los Angeles and eventually went on to attend the University
of Southern California as a music major. She ultimately received her B.A. in Social
Work from San Francisco State University.Frederick Douglas Haynes, Jr. was born in Los Angeles in 1928. His mother, Annette
Reid Jordan of Los Angeles, was the first wife of Reverend Frederick Douglas Haynes.
In 1932 Frederick Douglas Haynes, Jr. left his mother and moved to San Francisco to
live with his father. Haynes attended school in San Francisco but eventually
returned to Los Angeles where he graduated from the Manual Arts High School. He
attended Fresno State College, Simpson Bible College, and Bishop College in Dallas.
At the time of his death he was a student at the Golden Gate Baptist Theological
Seminary.
Extent
2 boxes
(0.75 Linear feet)
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