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Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 1999)
World Wide Web Resources
Online Documents, Projects, and Exhibits
Directory of African American Collections in the Greater Philadelphia and Selected Suburban Areas, compiled and edited by Margaret Gerrido, George Brightbill, and Brenda Galloway-Wright. This directory, produced by the Urban Archives at Temple University, includes 41 repositories and over 150 descriptions of African-American collections.
African-American Studies Resources
Submitted by: ALBERT G. MILLERThe links below are related to the Indiana Historical Society. It traces a variety of organizations, events and individuals over much of the past two centuries. Selected African-American History Collections is an annotated bibliography of the various manuscript holdings pertaining to blacks at the Indiana Historical Society. The guide is divided into six subject areas followed by several entries. The subject areas include Personal Papers (broadly defined to include those collections that pertain to a given individual), Organizations and Institutions, Communities, Education, Race Relations, and Religious Institutions.
Within the site, be sure to look at the sections on:
The Smithsonian: African American History and Culture web site has selected links to sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations.
The AFRO-American Almanac's site focuses on historical documents related to African Americans, presenting historical perspectives of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution, from the beginning of the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement, to the present. Documents include:
The Constitution of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Black Codes of Mississippi - 1865
Black Laws of Ohio - 1804
The Declaration of Independence (The omission)
The Dred Scott Case
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia
Principles of the Ku Klux Klan
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Origin of "Jim Crow"
Ebonics (The Original Resolution )
Atlanta Compromise 1895
An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
The Black Panther Party, Platform and Program
Executive Order 10730
First-Person Narratives of the American South, Beginnings to 1920 is a compilation of 100 printed texts documenting the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives. The focus is on first-person narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. The texts for this project come from the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, while the Editorial Board for Documenting the American South guides its development. This project was a 1996/97 Award Winner of The Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition.
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ISSN: 1094-902X
Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 1999)
News and Announcements
African-American Collections at Emory: Since 1996 Randall Burkett has been the African-American Studies Bibliographer at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library, working to build an endowment, acquire rare books and manuscripts, and curate exhibits. Emory's collection of rare Afro-Americana boasts unique resources for scholarly research including the fifth edition (1840) and twenty-fifth edition (1912) of Richard Allen and Jacob Tapisco's 1817 Doctrines and Disciplines of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and Noah C. W. Cannon's The Rock of Wisdom: An Explanation of the Scriptures (1833). The collection also contains unique periodicals, as well as the Alexander Crummell Pamphlet Collection. Emory's African-American Collection also provides scholars with access to the Bailey / Thurman Papers. Isaac G. and Susie E. Bailey were active in the Arkansas Baptist Convention and Susie Bailey in women's clubs and Baptist women's activities. Their papers also include extensive correspondence between Susie E. Bailey and her daughter, Sue Bailey Thurman. Burkett is also in the process of collecting materials on the civil rights and post-civil rights eras. For more information, contact:
African-American Studies Bibliographer, Randall K. Burkett or Reference Archivist, Beverly Allen:
Special Collections Department
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322-2890Phone: 404/727-6887 E-mail: speccollref@emory.edu
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has selected 27 scholars to receive its newly established Fellowships in American Civilization, grants that support research in any of three New York City historical archives: The Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, and the Library of the New York Historical Society. The fellowships are open to scholars in American history and literature and related fields who have a demonstrated record of excellence in their fields and who reside outside the city and its environs. The Fellowships in American Civilization provide as much as $2,500 a month for up to three months. The deadline for fellowship applications for the year 2000 is November 15.
Call for Papers: Black Women in Africa and the African
Diaspora: Identity, Culture, and Politics
On June1-4, 2000, the Afro-American Studies and Research Program and the Center
for African Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign (UIUC) will host an
international and interdisciplinary conference on Black Women in Africa and the African
Diaspora. They are interested in panel and paper proposals that address the broad
topics of identity, culture, and politics in both the historical and contemporary lives of
Black women in Africa and the African diaspora. The organizers invite proposals and
panels that are related but not limited to the following categories: Art and Culture,
Education, Health, Politics, and Religion. Send a one-page abstract and/or panel
proposal to the conference chair by August 15, 1999. For more information contact
Alice Deck at 217/333-7781, e-mail: a-deck@uiuc.edu.
Or write to Professor Alice Deck, BWAAD Conference Chair, Afro-American Studies and
Research Program, University of Illinois, 1201 West Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801.
The Globalization of Yoruba Religious Culture
An international conference on Yoruba religious traditions will be held at
Florida International University in Miami on December 9-12, 1999: "From Local to
Global: Rethinking Yoruba Religious Traditions for the Next Millennium." For
more information please contact Terry Rey, Dept. of Religious Studies, Florida
International University, Miami, FL 33199; Tel: 305/348-6263; E-mail: reyt@fiu.edu
Research Queries
Daryl Herrschaft of the Human Rights Campaign writes: I am in search of recent doctrine and newsworthy developments concerning the positions of three predominantly African American churches on the issue of homosexuality. The churches are: National Baptist Convention, Church of God in Christ and African Methodist Episcopal Church. Specifically, I am interested in views on whether homosexuality is considered a sin and positions on same-sex unions and conversion therapy. I would appreciate any assistance you can provide on these churches for use in an upcoming publication. You may contact him at: Human Rights Campaign, 919 18th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20006. E-mail: daryl.herrschaft@hrc.org
Quandra Prettyman writes: I am preparing an
annotated bibliography of African American cookbooks. I am finding it particularly
difficult to identify and track down cookbooks produced by churches and clubs. I would
appreciate any bibliographic information--or even vague recollections--anyone has. I
welcome responses by e-mail (qp1@columbia.edu) or regular mail (Quandra Prettyman, Barnard
College English Department, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10025.
New Books:
Tunde Adeleke, UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission. University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1964. Simon and Schuster, 1998.
Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Jane Duitsman Cornelius, Slave Missions and the Black Churches in the Antebellum South. University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Mary Cuthrell Curry, Making the Gods in New York: A Study of the Yoruba Religion in the African American Community. Garland Publishing, 1999.
Farah J. Griffin and Cheryl J. Fish, eds., A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing. Beacon, 1998.
Mark Hulsether, Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993. University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
Sandy Dwayne Martin, For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood. University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Russell Moldovan, Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Oral History of His Religious Witness and Life. International Scholars, 1999.
Barbara Dianne Savage, Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948. University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
William Seraile, Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church. University of Tennessee Press, 1998.
Gilbert Anthony Williams, The Christian Recorder, Newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: History of a Forum for Ideas, 1854-1902. MacFarland, 1996.
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