The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925


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  1. Title Page from The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. African Methodist Episcopal Church. (Philadelphia: J. H. Cunningham, 1817).

  2. Title Page from Civil Rights. The Outrage of the Supreme Court of the United States upon the Black Man... by Henry McNeal Turner. (Philadelphia: Publication Department A. M. E. Church, 1889).

  3. 104. The Good Old Way. Nashville. Mr. G. H. Allan. from Slave songs of the United States. William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison.

  4. Cover from Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Session of the Baptist Daughters of Zion Auxiliary.... Baptist Daughters of Zion Auxiliary. (Goldsboro, N. C.: Nash Brothers, Printers and Binders, 1922).

  5. Title Page from Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History by James A. Handy (Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Concern, 1902).

  6. Trinity C.M.E. Church, Augusta, Ga. Illustration from Afro-American Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each... by James T. Haley (Nashville, Tenn.: Haley & Florida, 1895).

  7. Rev. A.R. Griggs, D.D., Dallas, Texas. Illustration from Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence, With a Picture Gallery of Eminent Ministers and Scholars by E. C. Morris. (Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1901).

  8. Our Mission Church, Hot Springs, Ark. Illustration from The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status by C. H. Phillips. (Jackson, Tenn.: Publishing House C. M. E. Church, 1925).

  9. Jimmy Washington, Little Rock, Ark. Illustration from "In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches by Joanna P. Moore. (Chicago: Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, c1902).

  10. Frontispiece from A Voice from the South by Anna J. Cooper (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892).

  11. Mrs. Fannie Pound J.P. Moore Lydia Lawrence Training School for Wives and Mothers, Baton Rouge, LA. Illustration from "In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches by Joanna P. Moore. (Chicago: Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, c1902).

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