Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Dontated by Audrey Britt

Biographical/Historical Note

The Rev. Warren Arthur Evans was a 1933 graduate of Virginia Union University with a bachelor of divinity degree. His thesis at VUU was titled “The Preacher as a Prophet.” He was a native of Oklahoma and received an AB degree from Fisk University in 1930. Evans was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He was married to Virginia Edmunds and had three children: David, Warren and Elise.

Evans attended the University of Southern California in the early 1940s. He was a teacher in the Richmond public schools, specifically at Graves Junior High School ca. 1957. He attended barbering classes ca. 1956.

Evans was pastor of Beulah Baptist Church in Minor, Va., ca. 1950. He was pastor of Union Shiloh Baptist Church in Laneview, Va., ca. 1962-1971. His residences in Richmond included: 1505 Jacquelin St. (1934-1942); 211 S. Randolph St. (1943-1952); 2412 Hawthorne Ave. (1955-1968), and 2509 Edgewood Ave. (ca. 1975).

Scope and Content

This collection came to VUU through a gift collection of Rev. Warren Arthur Evans’ books donated to the library in November 2001. The material includes church programs, correspondence, receipts and ledgers for his household expenses, sermon notes, photos, documents related to his various educational pursuits, and a travel diary, with a packet of postcard photographs of “The Famous Temples of Baalbeck,” undated.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

Related Material

William Henderson Johnson Collection, MS-0012

Index Terms

Persons:

• Evans, Warren Arthur

Subjects:

• African Americans -- Travel -- United States

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