Anacostia Community Museum Archives

Sherry Sherrod DuPree collection on the African-American Holiness and Pentecostal movements, circa 1887-2001

Summary

Collection ID:
ACMA.06-041
Creators:
DuPree, Sherry Sherrod, 1946-
Dates:
circa 1887-2001
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
355 Boxes
Repository:
This collection, which dates from circa 1887-2001, contains materials relating to the history of African-American Holiness and Pentecostal movements. Included are newsletters, correspondence, brochures, fliers, magazines, VHS tapes, articles, newspaper clippings, slides, manuscripts, photographs, books, financial documents, audiocassettes, compact discs, diskettes, DuPree's research files, and other materials. A copy of DuPree's book "African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: an Annotated Bibliography," which was based on the research in this collection, is also present.

Biographical/Historical note

Biographical/Historical note
Sherry Sherrod DuPree is a librarian and historian whose research focuses on African-American gospel music and African-American Pentecostal churches. She was the founder and organizer of the DuPree African-American Pentecostal and Holiness Collection at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. DuPree began the National African American Holiness Pentecostal Project, during the course of which she received several grants to fund her work. 1988, DuPree was appointed by Dr. Wilma Hughey to the Archival Historical Committee of The Church of God in Christ, Memphis, Tennessee. In 1995, DuPree became the Archivist of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Detroit. In March of 1998, she was elected Second Vice-President in the Society for Pentecostal Studies.

Administration

Author
Carrie Gehrer
Custodial History note
Gift of Sherry Sherrod DuPree, 2004.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
This collection is located at an off-site storage facility. To access the materials, please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
Preferred Citation note
Sherry Sherrod DuPree collection on the African-American Holiness and Pentecostal movements, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Sherry Sherrod DuPree.

Keywords

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