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

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

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