Sources, Documents, Reprints and Research
in Afro-Caribbean & African-American Studies

Being a repository of texts and source materials of (mostly) interwar 20th Century African-American and Afro-Caribbean (mostly) religious cultures and movements.

Note: The terms African-American and Afro-Caribbean are employed as identifiers of the participants in movements that did not necessarily view themselves as either; these terms are used as a crude shorthand for denoting the social milieu, but are recognized as exterior constructs, imposed from without.

James Morris Webb

The Black Man The Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History by James Morris Webb
Literally titled: Biblical History establishes the African origins of human civilization

A Black Man Will Be The Coming Universal King Proven By Biblical History by James Morris Webb
More Literalism: Biblical History establishes the coming Universal King

Moorish Science Temple of America

Nation of Islam

Afro-Athlican Constructive Church

Bedwardism and Beyond

History of Bedwardism by A.A. Brooks
Pre-Garvey Jamaican folk religious movement. An history thereof.

Misc.

The War and the Negro People by James Ford
WWII Communist pamphlet taking aim at Darker Races Japanese propaganda.

 

 
 
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