United Methodist Internet Sources
Segregated Central Jurisdiction - new
Gulfside center bridges segregation era, 21st century - new
Remembering the Central Jurisdiction - new
The general web site for the spiritual growth study on Exodus: The Journey to Freedom
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/umw/exodus
Brief Timeline of United Methodism includes key events related to racial ethnic minorities and women.
http://www.gcah.org/UMC_timeline.htm
United Methodist history of the segregated Central Jurisdiction and other issues involved in the 1968 union between The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
http://www.umc.org/churchlibrary/discipline/history/movement_toward_union.htm
?The Slavery Question and the Civil War? in the context of early United States Methodism.
http://www.umc.org/churchlibrary/discipline/history/the_slavery_question.htm
A pictorial essay with narrative on the Civil War era. Other eras can be accessed at this United Methodist 200 years portrait.
http://www.drew.edu/books/200Years/part3/039.htm
Reconstruction and Methodists after the Civil War. Scroll down and click on other links for limited refereces to how race impacted discussion on reunion between northern and southern Methodists.
http://www.umc.org/churchlibrary/discipline/history/reconstruction.htm
Charter for racial justice, first introduced by United Methodist Women and adopted by the entire denomination, expresses a wide range of issues and strategies to deal with racism.
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/racial.html
General Board of Church and Society organizes its web site on the United Methodist Social Principles. Do a search on ?race? for a variety of sources. Also, ?Our Social Community? deals with multiple issues of prejudice and discrimination.
http://www.umc-gbcs.org/principles/index.php?principle=3
United Methodist General Commission on Religion and Race
http://www.gcrr.org/Original%20Web/History.htm
?When We Hate? is the ?Responsively Yours? column by Joyce Sohl published in RESPONSE magazine. See the list of news releases at the bottom of the page.
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/anti-hate/
Map of hate crimes in the United States
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/anti-hate/ushatecrimes.htm
Hate Crimes Resolution which is official policy of the United Methodist Church
http://www.gc2000.org/pets/pet/TEXT/p30846.asp
United Methodists denounce Chief Wahoo
http://gbgm-umc.org/Response/articles/wahoo.html
Additional bibliographic material stocked by the Service Center on race and hate crimes.
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/anti-hate/bibliography.html
Harry Hosier, African American Methodist and first missionary to Native Americans.
http://www.gcah.org/Methodist_Bio/Harry_Hosier.htm
Christianity Today article on Black United Methodist leaders critique of United Methodist overtures to resolve racial divisions with historic Black denominations.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/007/11.19.html
United Methodist News Service analysis of the issues of race today.
http://www.umc.org/closeup/Racism/racism3.htm
Slave narratives provide first hand accounts of experiences of slavery.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
A little more user friendly web resource on slave narratives out of University of Houston.
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
African American pamphlet collection from the Library of Congress provides primary materials written by African Americans abolitionists to protest slavery.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/
These web sites on slavery in ancient Rome provide excellent background by which to deal with some of the Scripture references to slavery:
http://departments.vassar.edu/~jolott/republic1998/spartacus/slavelife.html
http://www.fordham.eduhalsall/ancient/slavery-romrep1html
http://www.aber.ac.uk/education/PGCE/dbm98/romanslavehomepage.html
Pros and Cons of Reparations for African Americans
http://www.straightblack.com/culture/African-American-Articles/African-American-Slavery-Reparations.html
Extensive links to web pages on Abolition and Slavery
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/slave.htm
ABOLITION AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Historical and contemporary resources on the underground railroad and site preservation efforts through the establishment of a museum in Cincinnati. Take a virtual tour.
http://www.undergroundrailroad.org/
Testimony of escaped slaves interviewed in Canada by white abolitionists.
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/canadian_slaves.html
Preliminary collection of web sites related to the Underground railroad
http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/links.htm#research
?The Abolitionist? provides links to speeches and proclamations related to abolition.
http://afgen.com/slave1.html
CIVIL WAR INFORMATION AND LINKS
Provides good background and other links
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.htm
This is a collection of links to the history of jim crow and anti-lyching campaigning. They rate the various web sites they identify.
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/gateway/gw_antilynching.htm
Yale University curriculum, ?The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots 1880-1950,? provides a paper on the history of lynching of African Americans as a tool of racist terrorism. ?Race Riots? were an upsurge of mobs of whites attacking Black communities.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html#a
This web page from Cleveland State University analyzes the press coverage of lynchings in the United States.
http://academic.csuohio.edu/perloffr/lynching/
University of Binghamton curriculum on Black and White women?s anti-lynching campaign.
http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/aswpl/doclist.htm
This website provides a variety of articles on white racism as well definitions for and tools for working with groups.
http://www.whiteprivilege.com/
?Project Change? provides a broad scope analysis of current race and gender issues.
http://www.projectchange.org/about.html
United Nations information web site on global anti-racism
http://www.antiracism-info.org/Kiwi/pageHome.php
Organization which addresses wide ranging issues of civil rights in the United States.
http://www.civilrights.org/
Official African Methodist Episcopal history website:
http://www.ame-today.com/history/index.html
Official African Methodist Episcopal Zion website:
www.theamezionchurch.org
Official Christian Methodist Episcopal heritage website:
http://www.c-m-e.org/core/CME_Beginnings.htm
Full text of C.H. Phillips? book, The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its organization, Subsequent Development, and Present Status, (Jackson, TN: The CME Publishing House, 1925):
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/phillips/menu.html
Eden Seminary?s fact page on the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church:
http://www.eden.edu/cuic/members/denominations/cme.pdf
Smithsonian?s pictorial exhibition of the impact of the Black Church today. It includes photos and interviews with Black Church members.
http://anacostia.si.edu/speak/
World Council of Churches? Statement of Racism:
http://www2.wcc-coe.org/ccdocuments.nfs/index/plen-4-en.html
Jesuit College in the South provides a library of resources on Race. Scroll down for resource links to various races.
http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/race.htm
Presbyterian racial justice programs deal with the diversity of our world.
http://www.pcusa.org/racialethnic/justice/
GENERAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Vast collection of well-organized links to full book texts, photos and much more.
http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/afroam.html
Africans in America is a PBS series which covers four eras in U.S. history.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
Long Island University web site, ?A Journey to Freedom,? which offers very brief descriptions to a multitude of historical events.
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm
Smithsonian?s web site on Black history and contributions to science, the arts, communications technology, agriculture, religion, etc.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm
Rare photographs of African American Slavery and freedom compiled by the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/082_slav2.html