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ARTICLES, PAPERS, SPEECHES, BOOKS Brothers and Sisters to Us U.S. Catholic Bishops 1979 Pastoral Letter on Racism The Benefits of Church Involvement for African-Americans By Cassandra Chaney, Louisiana State University, in Journal of Religion and Society, 2008 God and Black Suffering: Calling the Oppressors to Account By James H Cone in Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2008 James Healy The first African-American bishop in the United States. From the webpage of the city of Burlington, NJ, 2007 Patrick Healy The first African-American president of a predominantly white university. From the webpage of the city of Burlington, NJ, 2007 Black and Catholic in America An interview with Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, January 16, 2007 Cardinal Humberto Medeiros and the Desegregation of Boston's Public Schools, 1974-1976 By Richard Gribble in Journal of Church and State, Spring 2006 "Strange Fruit": Black Suffering/White Revelation By Christopher Pramuk in Theological Studies, June 2006 The Abolition of the Slave Trade:Christian Conscience and Political Action By John Coffey in Cambridge Papers, June 2006 Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Protestantism, and Race in Civil Rights Era Alabama and Georgia By Andrew S. Moore, Assistant Professor of History, Saint Anselm College, in Journal of Southern Religion, December 2005 Prelates, Protest, and Public Opinion: Catholic Opposition to Desegregation, 1947-1955 By R. Bentley Anderson in Journal of Church and State, Summer 2004 War, Religion, and White Supremacy in Comparative Perspective: South Africa and the American South By Retief Müller, University of Pretoria, in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2004 Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights By Leonard Rogoff, Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, in Journal of Southern Religion, November 2003 Nigger and Caricatures By Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology, and Dr. Phillip Middleton, Professor of Languages and Literature, Ferris State University, Septeber 2001 Original Dishonor: Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery By Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College, in The Journal of Southern Religion, February 2000 Original Dishonor: Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery By Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College, in Journal of Southern Religion, February 2000 The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice By Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in Journal of Southern Religion, August 2000 Tradition and the Traditions of African American Catholicism By M. Shawn Copeland in Theological Studies, December 2000 Theology of Slavery: Western Theology's Role in the Development and Propogation of Slavery By Scott Foutz in Quodlibet Journal, January 2000 Black & American: What Does It Mean? By Clifford Thompson in Commonweal, Feb 13, 1998 Black and Catholic: Many Say They Are Faithful Despite Church's Inattention By Robert McClory in National Catholic Reporter, 1998 The Idol of White Supremacy: Blocking the Prayers of the Church By Eugene F. Rivers III in Sojourners, March-April 1997 As Long as You Think You're White, There's No Hope for You By Bob Hulteen in Sojourners, March-April 1997 Is It Really Racism? The Origins of White Americans' Opposition to Race-Targeted Policies By David O. Sears, Colette van Laar, Mary Carillo, and Rick Kosterman in Public Opinion Quarterly, February 1997 Race and Identity in America: A Personal Perspective By Glenn C. Loury. Excerpted from his book One by One from the Inside Out : Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America, 1997 African Culture, African Intellectuals and the White Academy in South Africa By Tinyiko Sam Maluleke in Religion & Theology, 1996 From Selma, Alabama to Hollywood, California A Thirty-One Year Struggle for Fairness and Inclusion in the American Dream. An open letter to the entertainment community by the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, March 18, 1996 An Essay on a Wickedly Powerful Word By Keith Woods in Poynter Online, November 1995 White Supremacy in the 1990s By Loretta Ross, 1995 On Slavery By Femi Akomolafe, 1994 40 Years after Brown, Integration Still a Dream By Robert F. Drinan in National Catholic Reporter, May 13, 1994 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: 40 Years Later By Samuel Harvey, Jr., Dr. Floretta Dukes McKenzie, and Roger Wilkins, Woodstock Report, June 1993 Blacks and other Racial Minorities: The Significance of Color in Inequality By Joe T. Darden, Michigan State University, 1988 You Have Created Me Black By Eve Pitts in The Way, 1988 You Have Created Me Black By Elaine Foster in The Way, 1988 You Have Created Me Black By Hansa Shah in The Way, 1988 You Have Created Me Black By Victoria Merriman-Johnson in The Way, 1988 You Have Created Me Black By Gwen Caesar in The Way, 1988 Theology Today, Volume 38, July 1981 Contains these articles: "The Religion of Antiblackness" by Joseph R. Washington, Jr., "The Churches and the Future of Racism" by Donald W. Shriver, Jr.; "Countee Cullen's 'The Black Christ'" by James H. Smylie, "Religious Freedom and Native Americans" by John Dart; "Banning Black Theology in South Africa" by Allan A. Boesak Black Experience in America 1972 book by Norman Coombs Black Experience and the Bible By Robert A. Bennett in Theology Today, 1971 The Black Experience and Black Religion By Preston N. Williams in Theology Today, 1969 Black Catholics in the United States: An Exploratory Analysis By Joe R. Feagin, University of California, Riverside, in Sociology of Religion, Winter 1968 Are American Negro Churches Christian? By Joseph R. Washington, Jr, in Theology Today, 1963 Martin Luther King: Letter from a Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963 Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream Delivered August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. Negro Suffrage in a Democracy By Ray Stannard Baker in Atlantic Monthly, 1910 The Souls of Black Folk 1903 book by W.E.B. Du Bois Strivings of the Negro People By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois in Atlantic Monthly, 1897 My Escape from Slavery By Frederick Douglass in The Century Illustrated Magazine, November 1881 The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., first graduate of color from the U.S. Military Academy, 1878 Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911). Originally published 1869. Reprinted, 1900, by Riverside Press My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglass, 1855 Maya Angelou: The Black Family Pledge MISCELLANEOUS WEBSITES Catholic African World Network Produces programming that shares with the entire Roman Catholic Church the gifts of Black culture, and to promote Catholicism in the Black community throughout the world National Black Catholic Congress We commit ourselves to establishing an agenda for the evangelization of African Americans; and to improve the spiritual, mental, and physical conditions of African Americans, thereby committing ourselves to the freedom and growth of African Americans as full participants in church and society Subcommittee on African American Affairs Of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Project Reach Out Racism continues to be the major barrier to authentic evangelization that is open to and affirming of the Black experience. Project Reach Out focuses on sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with the churched and unchurched people of the Black Community Holy Angels Church An African American Catholic Community in Chicago. Site includes pages on Black Catholics, Black Christianity, Black Popes, African Saints, The African-American Diaspora, African-American Bishops, African and African-American Churches On-Line, The Catholic Church in Africa, 2000 Years of Christianity in AFRICA, African Cardinals African American History Archives A whole library of documents, articles, speeches, and historical material Negro Spirituals Atlantic Monthly, Volume 19, June 1867: 685-94 African American Texts Great collection of texts from the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives Excerpts from Slave Narratives First-hand accounts of Enslavement, The Middle Passage, Arrival, Conditions of Life, Childhood, Family, Religion, Punishment, Resistance, Flight, Emancipation Slave Narratives Organized by Jon K. Mĝller. Includes "The Black Experience in America" by Norman Coombs; Excerpts from Slave Narratives (Edited by Steven Mintz - University of Huston); Slave Narratives - Miscelleaneous Been Here So Long Selections from the WPA American Slaves Narratives National Underground Railroad Freedom Center The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, opened August 23, 2004. Using the Underground Railroad as a lens through which to explore a range of freedom issues, the Freedom Center offers lessons and reflections on the struggle for freedom in the past, in the present, and for the future Martyrs for Humanity Holy Angels Church, an African-American Catholic Church, promulgates a Declaration of Belief Proclamation, Martyrs for Humanity, for those individuals whose tireless work and effort throughout history has been for the benefit of humanity and in particular for the benefit of people of African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Central and South American African heritage, generally at the cost of their lives. While not a canonization rite accompanied by the traditional Roman Catholic veneration and invocation, it is our sincere Declaration of Belief Proclamation that these individuals lives work was God's work and that they died in God's Divine Grace. Their souls are in Heaven with God The Menare Foundation's North Star Website The Menare Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and restoration of Underground Railroad safe-houses. Within this site you can track Anthony Cohen's progress on the Walk to Canada, read about the work of the Menare Foundation, learn about the history of the Underground Railroad, discover safe-houses in your area, and find out how you can play a role in preserving your history and the movement to understand the Underground Railroad. Race, Ethnicity and Politics Resources in African American Politics, Public Affairs, History, and Culture Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia The actual museum is located on the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. We recognize that some people are unable to visit the Jim Crow Museum; therefore, we have created this brief virtual tour of the museum National Civil Rights Museum Take a virtual tour of the museum in Memphis. Tn Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute Includess The King Papers Project, the King Online Encyclopedia, and other materials The Forgotten Teachings of Martin Luther King A collection of MLK passages on affirmative action Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Racial Disparities in Sentencing Decisions Abstract of a government publication The Black Peoples' Prison Survival Guide The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences Nearly a hundred biographies of African American scientists African American Holocaust Graphic pictures of lynchings African American Literature for Children Molly Maffei, a teacher at Crim School in Bridgewater, New Jersey, has put together this annotated bibliography as an aid to elementary school teachers African American Resources Afro-American History African American History Primary documents by and about African Americans The Historical Text Archive: African American Over 200 links |
