Interviewee	England, Jasper Martin England, Mabel Orr
Interviewer	Stricklin, David Bruce
Title	Oral memoirs of Jasper Martin England and Mabel Orr England
Interview details	Jasper Martin England was interviewed on 27 July, 15 August, and 25 September 1984 and Mabel Orr England was interviewed on 26 July and 16 September 1984 by David Stricklin in Greenville, South Carolina.
Number of interviews	5
Interview Date(s)	1984
Item type	Transcript
Genre	Oral histories
Description, transcript	166 pages; index
Description, sound recordings	analog; 10.75 hours
Project	Religion and Culture Project
Summary	Jasper Martin (JME) and Mabel Orr (MOE) England were missionaries to Burma for the Foreign Mission Society of the American Baptist Convention (ABC) and co-founders, with Clarence and Florence Jordan, of Koinonia Farm (KF) in Sumter County, Georgia. In addition, Martin England had a long career with the ABC Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board (M&M) and was active in the Civil Rights movement. JME: family background; early influences; education at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania; teaching experiences; decision to volunteer for missions; causes of change from Southern Baptist to American Baptist foreign mission boards; marriage; missionary service in Burma; community center work, Kentucky; influence of Walter N. Johnson; relationship with Clarence and Florence Jordan; founding and early years of KF; involvement with Church Peace Mission; service for M&M board; ABC dual alignment for Baptist churches; experiences as M&M board regional representative in southern U.S.; problems encountered by southern pastors who took pro-civil rights stands; activism with the Civil Rights movement; Selma to Montgomery march; aftermath of bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama; encounters with Martin Luther King, Jr.; recollections of specific civil rights activists involved with churches or human rights councils; influence of Carlyle Marney; relationship between civil rights and peace concerns. MOE: family background; education; early career as youth director for Young Women's Christian Association; marriage; training at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; experiences in Burma and India before and after World War Two; effects of Burma civil war; women's roles at KF; community reaction to KF; recollections of Jordan family; reactions to JME's civil rights involvements.
Subject--Library of Congress	American Baptist Convention--Missions--Burma Koinonia Farm--History Christian communities--Georgia--History--20th century Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century Georgia--Race relations Georgia--Church history--20th century
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX
Deposit Date	1996
Genre source	local
Resource Type	Interview
Format	Text
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

Title	Oral memoirs of Jasper Martin England and Mabel Orr England - Transcirpt
Item type	Transcript
Genre	Oral histories
Genre source	local
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

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