DUPREE HOLINESS PENTECOSTAL CENTER
“For those who want to understand the most important
world-wide religious phenomenon of the twentieth century.”
The DuPree Holiness
Pentecostal Center (DHPC) has established a center in Florida with the purpose
to gather, catalog, digitize and upload records including books, articles,
journalistic accounts, tracts, sermons, diaries, photographs, posters, church
literature, oral histories, media tapes, periodicals, academic theses, and
dissertations to its server. Prioritized will be documents related to the
Church of God in Christ, the Church of Christ (Holiness) USA, and the Church of
Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith. However, DHPC is representing all
African American Holiness Pentecostal organizations. The ultimate goal is to
make previously unavailable material related to the Holiness Pentecostal
Movement accessible on an international level.
This National African American Holiness
Pentecostal Project started in 1980 by DuPree
receiving the first grant from The University of Florida in 1981. DuPree’s
Biographical Dictionary in 1990 opened the door to additional support from the
Gatorade Foundation, the National and Florida Humanities Councils. In 1993, two books were published. Under the auspices of the African American
Holiness Pentecostal Research Project, research has expanded to include the
role of religion in Africa and on American plantations. The project has contributed to Pentecostals
in the civil rights movement, historic tours, oral interviews, genealogy
research, mapping of historic cemeteries and curriculum activities for
students.
The DuPree Holiness
Pentecostal Center has been awarded limited support for this effort provided by
the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) at the University of Southern California (USC) which has been funded by the
John Templeton Foundation.
For more information, visit the PCRI site.
http://www.usc.edu/pcri
The New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20946
Learn how to have your historical document’s digitized and preserved!
http://www.academia.edu/4344197/Accessing_Digital_and_Non-Digital_Holiness-Pentecostal_Primary_Content