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| African American Christianity, Pt. II: From the Civil War to the Great Migration, 1865-1920 by Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ©National Humanities Center Illustration Credits | |
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| Bethel A.M.E. [African Methodist Episcopal] Church, Baltimore, Maryland, interior, ca. 1845. Print (no date recorded on shelflist card). Title: "The Presentation of a Gold Snuff Box to the Rev. R.T. Brecken-ridge. In Bethel Church, by Rev. Darius Stokes in behalf of the colored people of Baltimore as a gift of gratitude. A.D. Decr 18th 1845." | Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-22957 |
| Revival meeting, Virginia, 1885. Wood engraving by Carter N. Berkeley; in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 12 September 1885, p. 56. Original caption: "'Oh! Come down from heben, en ride round' in de hearts uv des sinners.' Virginia—Scene at a Colored Revival Meeting." | Reproduced by permission of the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, Image # 0091056p.jpg |
| A.M.E. mission church, Arkansas, late 1890s, in C. H. Phillips, The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status, Jackson Tennessee: Publishing House C. M. E. Church, 1925, captioned "Our Mission Church, Hot Springs, Ark." | Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| A.M.E. Bishops, lithograph, Boston: J.H. Daniels, 1876. Repository note: "Portraits of Richard Allen and other African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) bishops, surrounded by scenes including Wilberforce University, Payne Institute, missionaries in Haiti, and the A.M.E. church book depository in Philadelphia." | Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-6170; original copyright by John H. W. Burley |
African American colleges and universities in the southern U.S., founded by African American denominations
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Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| John Antrobus, A Plantation Burial, oil on canvas, 1860. | Reproduced by permission of The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana. Digital image from the online collection The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in America: A Visual Record, a project of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library. |
| Alfred Heber Hutty (1877-1954), Voodoo Ritual, watercolor, undated | Reproduced by permission of the Morris Museum of Art, August, Georgia; Accession No. 1989.01.085 |
| Baptism, region of Augusta, Georgia, ca. 1872-1898, photograph by the African American photographer Robert E. Williams, who operated a photography studio in Augusta from 1888 to ca. 1908 | Reproduced by permission of the University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection, in online collection Digital Library of Georgia |
| Ring shout, St. Simon's Island, Georgia, ca. 1940; captioned "Margaret, on the left, demonstrates the correct position of arms and feet in shouting" | In Lydia Parrish, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands, 1942, p. 144; reprint 1965 by Folklore Associates, Inc., Hatboro, PA. Photograph credited to Rutherford. |
| Live Coals of Fire, publication of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Association, 20 April 1900 | Intl. Pentecostal Holiness Church, Research and Archives Center |
| The Apostolic Faith, first issue of the Azusa Street Mission newspaper, September 1906 | Newspaper in the public domain; digital image courtesy of Azusa Street Like As of Fire, Rev. Curtis Bond, editor. |
| Steward A.M.E. Church, Macon, Georgia, late 1800s, in T. G. Stewart, Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914, Philadelphia: Printed by A.M.E. Book Concern, 1921?, p. 136 | Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Tampa, Florida, 1915. From source: "A black and white photo of an article in the Tampa Daily Times on January 28, 1915 about the construction of the St. Paul A.M.E. (Institutional) Church building, headquarters of the Young People's Christian and Moral Societies, domestic science, Christian clubs and kindergarten for children." | Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of South Florida. Digitization provided by the USF Libraries Digitization Center; image included in Exploring Florida: Social Studies Resources for Teachers and Students. |
| 16th St. Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., ca. 1895, in C. O. Boothe, The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their Work, Birmingham: Alabama Publishing Co., 1895, p. 121 | Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| A.M.E. Church Review, April 1909, cover | Ohio Historical Center Archives, Ohio Historical Society, in online collection The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, and in American Memory, Library of Congress. Permission pending. |
| A.M.E. Women's Parent Mite Missionary Society, Executive Committee, Detroit, Michigan, 1915, in Richard R. Wright, Centennial Encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia: [Book Concern of the A.M.E. Church], 1916, p. 326 | Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| Officers of A.M.E. women's missionary societies, mid 1910s [three images, each with three photographs], in Wright, Centennial Encyclopedia, 1916, pp. 321, 323, 325 | Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Jacksonville, Florida, 1889 | Reproduced with permission of the Florida State Archives, Photograph Collection # PR00827 |
| A.M.E. Metropolitan Church, Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 | Library of Congress |
| St. Louis Street Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, ca. 1895, in C. O. Boothe, The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their Work, Birmingham: Alabama Publishing Co., 1895, p. 221 | Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne, photograph, n.d. | Isaac and Lenora Lane Collection, Ohio Historical Center Archives, Ohio Historical Society, # 88-3; in online collection The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, and in American Memory, Library of Congress. Permission pending. |
| Open air meeting of the Apostolic Faith Church, Portland, Oregon, 1907 | Reproduced by permission of Apostolic Faith Church International Headquarters, Portland, Oregon |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett, photograph, ca. 1890s | University of Chicago Library. Permission pending. Digital image from The Voice News, Winsted, Connecticut, 12 April 2002, at www.thevoicenews.com/News/2002/0412/ Arts_And_Amusements/001.html. |
| Sixth Mt. Zion Church, Richmond, Virginia, chart of history with photographs, date | Reproduced by permission of Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives |
| Baptist women leaders noted and pictured in C. O. Booth, The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their Work, pp. 26, 36, 82, 179 | Reproduced by permission of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, in online collection Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community |
| Lynching of Scott Burton, Springfield, Illinois, 1908 | Illinois State Historical Library may be the copyright holder. Permission pending. |
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