ISSN: 1094-902X
Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000)

World Wide Web Resources

Online Documents, Projects, and Exhibits

AfriGenas
This site provides tools and information for genealogical research on people of African descent from Africa to the Americas.    Currently available resources include a surname database that helps connect researchers to one another, slave data records, a library of documents, and a user forum.

African American Churches in Tuscon
Students in the University of Arizona's African American History Intern Project (1990) produced profiles of five black congregations in the city.  These profiles, along with a photographic exhibit, are available at the web site.

African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project
The site provides information on the thirteen-volume project edited by David W. Wills and Albert J. Raboteau and to be published by the University of Chicago Press.  Resources on the web site include an outline of the planned volumes which will span the years from 1441 to the present, sample documents,  a guide for newcomers to the field, and resources for research and teaching in African-American religious history.

American Missionary Journal (1878-1901)
Part of Cornell University Library's "Making of America" digital collection, this site makes available the table of contents of the American Missionary, as well as digital images of the journal issues.  The site also has a search engine that covers the American Missionary and other journals and books in the Making of America collection.

Black History at HarpWeek
Part of the larger site dedicated to Harper's Weekly, this section presents materials on African American history published from 1857 through 1874.  This very rich and impressively designed site contains reprints of articles and images on slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and culture and society.  In addition, the site provides annotated timelines for the period.  Other HarpWeek sites include a focus on the cartoons of Thomas Nast, Civil War Literature, Immigrant and Ethnic America, and the American West.

EBlack Studies
Edited by Abdul Alkalimat of the University of Toledo's Africana Studies Program, this developing site contains links to a wide variety of online resources in Black Studies.  

From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
As part of the Library of Congress' American Memory online resources, this collection "presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington."

 

Web Sites of Groups and Organizations

AfroCuba Web
This site is dedicted to providing a showcase for Afro-Cuban culture and contains news and links about cultural events.

The African and African-American Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Site
As the title indicates, this site brings together people of African descent who practice Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and, at the same time, wish to emphasize African and African-American culture and history.

Church of God and Saints of Christ
The website of the Jewish-Christian group founded in 1896 by William S. Crowdy contains information on the group's history, founder, doctrine and beliefs, tabernacles, and worship.

Rainbow Dharma
This site was established to provide a welcoming environment for Buddhist people of color and to promote Buddhist approaches to racial, religious,and economic healing.  It contains introductory information about Buddhism, links to additional resources (some restricted to members) and a message board.

St. Augustine R.C. Church
The homepage of the historic African-American Catholic parish in Washington, D. C.

United Nations of Islam
This website for the group headquartered in Maryland and active in Kansas City, Kansas, contains information about its leader, Solomon, and a range of enterprises under its "Your Community" model. 

 

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