African American churches

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Archive of programs for a variety of programs related to the 45th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1949 to 1979

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Collection of photographs and papers of this Alabama Methodist clergyman

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Papers, photographs, memorabilia, and assorted research of this North Alabama resident

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This collection contains seventy-one color slides depicting various stages of cotton production, taken by Marjorie L. Smith in and around Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama. Slides also show images of an African American church in Hayneville.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a steelplate engraving of Félix Régamey's Negro Baptism in the United States, published in The Illustrated London News in 1887. The engraving measures 16 x 11 inches and depicts a large gathering of African Americans along a riverbank engaged in a religious ceremony. Many participants hold Bibles or hymnals, their faces uplifted in song or prayer. In the foreground, a young boy is baptized by an older...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a broadside announcing a speech by Congressman Oscar DePriest at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 6, 1931, at 8 PM. The broadside highlights DePriest’s historic significance as the only African American in Congress at the time, the first African American elected to Congress outside the South, and the first African American Congressman of the twentieth century.The text of the broadside praises...

Scope and Contents This collection spans from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s and focuses on the administrative and fiscal operations of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AME Zion), particularly through the lens of Oscar W. Adams Sr.'s role as Secretary of Treasury. It includes correspondence from pastors of various AME Zion churches, reflecting the church's regional structure and financial concerns.The collection also contains financial records, such as balance sheets, receipts, and...

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Papers related to the Williams family of Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are two notebooks belonging to Barabara Adeline Williams, one of which she kept while in nursing school and the other while she was attaining her high school diploma.