Description: This celebration of Dr. Ina C. Brown was held at The Upper Room Chapel, sponsored by Belmont UMC, Scarritt College, and The United Methodist Board of Discipleship. The liturgist is Dr. Joe E. Pennel, Jr., pastor of Belmont UMC, Nashville. Messages are delivered by Walter Vernon, Walter Towner, Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton, Alvya(?) Bond, and Anita (no last name.). A note is read from Ezra Earl Jones, General Secretary ot the United Methodist General board of Discipleship. Ina Brown was residing at a nursing home and unable to attend the event. This recording was to be played for her a few days later. The recording includes hymns that have been edited to just the open and close for copyright considerations. From the Texas State Historical Society: Ina Corinne Brown, (1896–1984) teacher, was born in Gatesville, Texas, on May 27, 1896. She was a descendant of Orceneth Fisher, prominent pioneer Methodist preacher in Texas. Ina attended Southern Methodist University from 1919 to 1921. She then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she served on the educational staff of the Methodist Church until 1934. The University of Chicago granted her a B.A. in 1936 and a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1942. She also studied at the London School of Economics and, in 1937–38, at the British Museum on a Rosenwald Fellowship. From 1939 to 1941 she worked for the federal government's National Survey of Higher Education for Negroes. Her duties there included assisting black colleges throughout the United States to develop their curricula. She also traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa to study racial problems. She was professor of social anthropology at Scarritt College, Nashville, from 1942 to 1966; after her retirement she was professor emeritus there. She was a special lecturer at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University, all in Nashville. She was the author of three books on race relations: The Story of the American Negro (1936), Race Relations in a Democracy (1949), and Understanding Other Cultures (1963). She served as a consultant to city public school systems involved in desegregation in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida, a service sponsored by Peabody College. Ina Brown died in Hermitage, Tennessee, near Nashville, on May 12, 1984. | Length: 50:17 | Recording Date: July 8, 1981 | Recorded at: The Upper Room Chapel, Nashville TN | 