Father Divine's Peace Mission and Truth Center, Los Angeles, 1930s
Item Overview
- Title
- Father Divine's Peace Mission and Truth Center, Los Angeles, 1930s
- Date Created
- 1930s
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
-
Hotel property at 4611 Compton Avenue purchased to be used as a "heaven, " or "Peace Mission and Truth Center" for Father Divine's International Peace Mission movement. Father Divine, also known as Reverend M.J. Divine was a controversial African American spiritual leader from 1907-1965. He founded the International Peace Mission movement and claimed to be God.
Members of Father Divine's Peace Missions were given inexpensive room and board, employment, and encouragement to reform their lives in accordance with Father Divine's teachings. - Caption
-
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 4611 Compton ave. (one of Father Divine's houses).
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Divine, Father (One of his "Heavens" at 4011 Compton Ave.).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Father Divine
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Religion
Missions--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00288ghh
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .