Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Father Divine - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A sign advertising the expansion of Father Divine's "heaven," a converted hotel used as a Peace Mission and Truth Center
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Property purchased to be used 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
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Reported in: “Roosevelt foe laude Divine,” Los Angeles Times, 30 Jul. 1938: 2.
Date:: [July 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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