World Wide Web Resources

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Jazz Age Chicago
Scott Newman's online project provides a range of information on Chicago and urban leisure from 1893 to 1934, including movies, theater, department stores, dance halls, parks, hotels, transportation and public parks.

The Spirituals Project
This project, which includes a traveling choir and a number of multimedia resources, "is a broad based initiative to explore the many, varied dimensions of African American spirituals as art form, tradition and tool; and to invite all people to experience the joy and power of this dynamic music and gift from African Americans to the world." The project's founders seek "to ensure that the spirituals will be passed on for many generations to come."

The Rudolph Fisher Newsletter
Edited by Craig Gable, this "is a biannually published online newsletter--issues appearing in January and July--devoted to disseminating news and research-related information about Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934), an African-American author and physician, and the Harlem Renaissance at large."

 

Spotlight On: The Civil Rights Movement

In order to facilitate research and teaching on understudied aspects of African-American religious history, we will, on occasion, profile useful web sites on a particular theme.

Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
A University of Southern Mississippi project containing transcripts of oral histories, some with audio clips. The library has plans to add manuscript sources and photographs to the digital archive.

Federal Bureau of Investigation's Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
This site contains scanned files (in pdf format) that have been released as a result of requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Among the files available are:

The Greensboro Sit-Ins
TheDepot.com - the online division of the News & Record - and the Greensboro Public Library present this rich site with photographs and video of the sit ins, as well as almost audio clips of interviews with participants.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Contains a range of resources about King and the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
Under the direction of Clayborn Carson, the project's "principal mission is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts." The site contains a variety of materials from the project.

Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development
Founded in 1987, the Institute provides a range of educational programs for youth, parents, and community.

Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Moore covered civil rights for many years, with many of his photographs appearing in Life. John Kaplan produced this web site as part of the requirements for an M.S. degree in Journalism at Ohio State University.

Radio Fights Jim Crow
Part of the American Radio Works web site, Stephen Smith's project on radio and Civil Rights contains excerpts (in Real Audio format) from Americans All, Immigrants All (1938-1939), Freedom's People (1941-1942), New World A' Coming (1944-1957) and Destination Freedom (1948-1950).

SNCC: 1960-1966
Produced by a group of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this site presents a general introduction to the issues, people, and events in the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Veterans of Hope
Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Vincent G. Harding's Veterans of Hope Project "is a multi-faceted educational initiative on religion, culture and participatory democracy. Our primary mission is to encourage a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the interconnectedness of spirit, creativity and citizenship. We produce educational materials, workshops and programming designed to support reconciliation, nonviolence and an appreciation for the value of indigenous and folk wisdom for contemporary times."

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
The National Park Service provides this National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary.

 

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Mami Wata Healing Society of North America
The society is "an Ancestral, Afro-Religious organization committed to the resurrection of the Mami Wata and Yeveh Vodoun traditions in the ancestral lineages and diaspora of those who are being called to serve the gods and spirits of their Ancestors. The MHSNA is also committed to the promotion of healing for all citizens, establishing community, and continuity of these Ancient Ancestral Traditions specifically throughout North America."

Organization of African Traditional Healers
The organization is "a nonprofit, religious, education, and certification organization, committed to the positive promotion of African Traditional Religions, and the legitimatization of practitioners of ATRs here in the United States, and its surrounding territories."

The Temple of Yehwe
Located in Washington, D.C., "The Temple of Yehwe is an offshoot of Le Peristyle de Mariani which was founded in 1974 in Mariani, Haiti by Max G. Beauvoir. Both institutions have been dedicated to the understanding and to the promotion of Vodoun as the Religion and the Culture of the Haitian people."

 

 

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vol. 5, no. 1 (Fall 2001)
ISSN 1094-902X