Research Catalog

Title

African-American Pentecostal and Holiness collection, 1876-1989.

Author

DuPree, Sherry Sherrod, 1946-

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

10 lin. ft.

Summary

The DuPree African-American Pentecostal and Holiness Collection consists of original and secondary material documenting the history, beliefs, and activities of hundreds of Pentecostal and Holiness denominations, congregations, and individuals. The collection is arranged in four series: Denomination and Congregations, Individual Clergy and Evangelists, Subject Files, and Non-Pentecostal Material, and consists of news clippings, newsletters, journals, yearbooks, sermons, bulletins, brochures, programs, articles, theses, book excerpts, and other printed material. There is virtually no correspondence.

Donor/Sponsor

Preservation of the Black Religious Heritage Project funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Subjects

• Church of God in Christ
• Williams, Smallwood, 1907-1991
• Gospel music
• Bible Way Churches of Our Lord Jesus Christ World Wide
• African Americans > Religion
• Pentecostal churches > United States
• Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith
• Pentecostalism > United States
• Crowdy, William Saunders, 1847-1908
• African American churches
• Smith, Lucy, 1875-1952
• United Holy Church of America
• Mason, C. H (Charles Harrison)
• Mallory, Arenia Conelia, 1904-1977
• African American Pentecostals
• African American clergy
• Glossolalia
• Lawson, Robert C (Robert Clarence), 1883-1961

Note

• Audio and video cassettes transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

• DuPree, Sherry Sherrod

Biography (note)

• The DuPree African-American Pentecostal and Holiness Collection was compiled by Sherry Sherrod DuPree during research for her "Biographical Dictionary of African-American Holiness Pentecostals" (Washington, D.C.: Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1989).

Processing Action (note)

• Processed
• Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 325

OCLC

NYPW95-A126

Author

DuPree, Sherry Sherrod, 1946- Collector

Title

African-American Pentecostal and Holiness collection, 1876-1989.

Biography

The DuPree African-American Pentecostal and Holiness Collection was compiled by Sherry Sherrod DuPree during research for her "Biographical Dictionary of African-American Holiness Pentecostals" (Washington, D.C.: Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1989). Mrs. DuPree is a research librarian at Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, Florida, a member of the Church of God in Christ, and the author of "Exposed!!! Federal Bureau of Investigation Unclassified Reports on Churches and Church Leaders" and "African-American Good News (Gospel) Music" (both Washington, D.C.: Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1993).

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Research Call Number

Sc MG 325