Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities

Suggestions for Further Study

Available in Michael Schwartz Library Special Collection, Cleveland State University:

  • 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.
    • illiams, 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.