Whitaker, Arthur L. Papers

File

Identifier: RG-1394

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Programs, articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia from Whitaker's pastorate of the Calvary Baptist Church, Rochester, New York, and Pilgrim Baptist Church, St. Paul, Minnesota; one file is of special interest because of Whitaker's involvement in civil rights issues, particularly in the wake of Rochester's 1964 race riots.

Dates

Creation: 1950-1983

Creator

Whitaker, Arthur L. (Arthur Luther), 1921-2007 (Person)
Mondale, Walter F. (Walter Frederick), 1928- (Person)
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (Person)
Robinson, Jackie (Jack Roosevelt), 1919-1972 (Person)

Language of Materials

All materials within this collection are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Biographical / Historical

Baptist minister. Pastor in Massachusetts, New York and Minnesota; Executive Minister, American Baptist Churches of New York State 1978-83.

Biographical / Historical

Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Whitaker was born and educated in Malden, Massachusetts. He entered the Army, served under General George Patton and received four battle stars and several other citations before being honorably discharged in 1946. In 1948, he married his life long friend Virginia Carter at Union Emmanual Baptist Church in Malden. Whitaker graduated from Gordon College, Harvard Divinity School, and then receved both his STM and DMin degress from Andover Newton. While serving in Rochester, New York, He wrote the book Anatomy of a Riot, about the 1964 summer riots in that city. He served many years for the American Baptist denomination in Massachusetts and New York, and was the first African American Executive Minister appointed in the ABC-USA. Whitaker died in 2007.

Extent

.4 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Arthur Whitaker, 1983

Bibliography

Stub entry from A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the American Baptist Historical Society, compiled by William H. Brackney and Susan M. Eltscher (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1986).