World Wide Web Resources

Online Documents, Projects, and Exhibits

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
Contains a searchable archive of 2900 'life histories,' "written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940," and representing 24 states.

American Social History Project
Produced at the Center for Media and Learning at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, this site has a number of "Who Built America?" projects underway that deal with African-American life and history.

The Booker T. Washington Papers
The History Cooperative hosts this online version of the papers project published in 1972 by the University of Illinois Press. The text from the 14-volume printed work is available for browsing or searching and the site provides printing of PDF facsimile pages. The site also contains an image collection featuring Washington, members of his family and colleagues and illustrations from his autobiography.

A Timeline of Black Christianity Before the Civil War
A resource complied by A.G. Miller for Christian History (Spring 1999).

The Mosque in America: A National Portrait
This site contains the report of the Mosque Study Project, sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "This report is part of a larger study of American congregations called "Faith Communities Today," coordinated by Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religious Research.

 

Spotlight On: Religion and The Underground Railroad

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.

Flight to Freedom
Patrick Rael's interactive site allows students to assume the character of a historic figure who was enslaved and chart their escape to freedom. The site also contains an extensive list of resources.

Reform, Religion and the Underground Railroad in Western New York
Christopher Densmore of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College has compiled this list of resources "to encourage and facilitate research and study into abolition and reform in Western New York in the early and mid 19th Century."

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church
This Erie, Pennsylvania church has gathered information about the participation of its members in the underground railroad.

The Underground Railroad in Oswego County, New York
The Underground Railway Project of Oswego County has compiled letters, diaries, newspaper articles, and images exploring anti-slavery work in Oswego, one of the largest U.S. ports of trade with Canada in the 19th Century.

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Edward L. Ayers, Anne S. Rubin, and William G. Thomas have produced a rich hypermedia archive of materials on life in Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania before, during, and after the Civil War. One section of the site focuses on The Underground Railroad in Franklin County.

 

Web Sites of Groups and Organizations

First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia
The site of the oldest black church in North America, founded by George Leile in 1777.

Irmandane da Boa Morte - Sisterhood of the Good Death
The website of a religious confraternity of black Brazilian women and "devoted to the Assumption of the Virgin." The confraternity maintains the Festival of Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte (Our Lady of the Good Death) in Cachoeira in Bahia.

Oblate Sisters of Providence
Author Louis Diggs' site focuses on the work of the Mother Langue Guild and the case for the canonization of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, the founder of this order of black nuns.

The Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore and Cultural Center
Contains information about the businesses, cultural and technological centers and other projects of The Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church in Detroit.

 

 

 

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