Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING, VIEWING, AND LISTENING

Materials Available in the Cleveland State University Special Collections

BOOKS
    Histories and Celebrations of Local Religious Institutions

    • Brooks, Earline. Parkwood CME Church 75th Anniversary. Cleveland: privately printed, 1994.

    • Hayes, Ruth. Antioch Baptist Church 75th Anniversary Celebration. Cleveland: privately printed, 1968.

    • McCollum, Delores L. Centennial Service Antioch Baptist Church. Cleveland: privately printed, 1993.

    • Sims, Adrianne. Mt. Zion Church of Oakwood 2000. Cleveland: privately printed, 2000.

    • Watts, Ebraska Dalton. Parkwood CME Church 50th Anniversary Celebration. Cleveland: privately printed, 1969.

    • Watts, Ebraska Dalton. Parkwood CME Church 50th Anniversary Celebration Highlights. Cleveland: privately printed, 1969.

    • Weathers, Margaret. Parkwood CME Church 79th Anniversary Celebration. Cleveland: privately printed, 1999.

    • Williams, Arhur B., Jr. The Fifteenth Anniversary of the Northern Ohio Club of the Union of Black Episcopalians. Cleveland: privately printed, 2002.

    History of Religious Institutions

    • Armstrong, Foster, Richard Klein, and Cara Armstrong. A Guide to Cleveland's Sacred Landmarks. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1992.

    History of African American Sacred Music

    • Bennet, William R. and Geraldine L. McCarley. The Festival Worship and Dedication Service for the Marquerite S. Warner Memorial Pipe Organ at Antioch Baptist Church. Cleveland: privately printed, 1992.

    • Calvary Presbyterian Church. The Cleveland Choral Chapter of the National Convention of Gospel Choruses and Choirs, Inc. Concert. Cleveland: privately printed, 1977.

    • Calvary Presbyterian Church. The Cleveland Choral Chapter of the National Convention of Gospel Choruses and Choirs, Inc. Gospel Extravaganza. Cleveland: privately printed, 1978.

    • Euclid Avenue Congregational Church. Great Lakes Regional Conference of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses. Cleveland: privately printed, 1993.

    • Friendship Baptist Church. Souvenir Program of the Cleveland Gospel Choral Union Pre-Convention Musical of National Convention of Gospel Choruses and Choirs, Inc. Cleveland: privately printed, 1943.

    • National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc. 48th Annual Session of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc. Houston: privately printed, 1981.

    • Original Glorious Church Convention Center. The Greater Cleveland Choral Chapter of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses 6th Anniversary Celebration. Cleveland: privately printed, 1981.

    • Williams, Regennia, and Helen Turner Thompson. Spiritual Gifts and African American Freedom Songs. Cleveland: privately printed, 2000.

    Special Topics

    • Burleigh, Harry T. The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh. 1984. Miami: Belvin Mills.

    • Johnson, J. Rosamond, Arr. Album of Negro Spirituals. 1940. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation.

    • Williams, Regennia Black America Series: Cleveland, OH. 2002. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing.

Materials Available from Most Circulating Library Collections

    Bailyn, Bernard. Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunity for Study: New York: Vintage Books, 1960.

    Davis, Russell. Black American in Cleveland from George Peake to Carl Stokes, 1796- 1969. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1972.

    Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Edited and with and Introduction by David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's Press, 1997.

    Goldschmidt, Henry and McAlister. Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

    Gomez, Michael. (editor). Diasporic Africa: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

    _____. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

    Harris, Michael W. The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

    Kessler Harris, Alice. “Social History” in Foner, Eric (Editor for The American Historical Association) The New American History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.

    Kusmer, Kenneth. A Ghetto Takes Shape: Cleveland, 1870-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

    Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence Mamiya. The Black Church in the African American Experience. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.

    Phillips, Kimberley. AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

    Sernett, Milton C. (editor) African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness (Second Edition). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.

    West, Cornel and Eddie Glaude. African American Religious Thought: An Anthology. Louisville, KY.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.

    Zuckerman, Phil (editor). Du Bois on Religion. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000.


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