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A program for the Trinity United Presbyterian Church service held on February 13, 2000 at 11:00am, dedicated to "victims and the criminal justice system." It also includes a special thanks to Deacon Board and Anita Davis of the NAACP for developing the program.
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Handwritten notes on a Slide Show about the histories of various African American churches in Tallahassee. It contains a general outline of the foundation of these congregations, including: Bethel Missionary Baptist Church; Bethel A.M.E. Church; and St. James C.M.E. Church. It also includes a historical outline of religion in Tallahassee, including Florida State University's history of the West Florida Seminary. At the end, there is also a thank you note addressed to Althemese Barnes for her participation in the celebration of Reverend Bernyce H. Clausell's 80th birthday.
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A few chapters on African American Spirituals from "The Spirituals and the Blues" by James H. Cone. This includes chapter 1 on "Interpretations of the Black Spirituals," chapter 2 on "The Black Spirituals and Black Experience," a section of chapter 3 on "God and Jesus Christ in the Black Spirituals," and chapter 5 on "The Meaning of Heaven in the Black Spirituals."
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A journal article titled "The African-American Spiritual: Traditions and Performance Practices" from the November 1991 issue of The Choral Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4 written by Marvin V. Curtis and Lee V. Cloud. It examines the emergence and study of spirituals, covering their creation, culture, performance, and significance in popular music.
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An article titled "Black Spirituals: Their Emergence into Public Knowledge" written by Dena J. Epstein for the Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring, 1990). It covers the origin of African American Spirituals, their popular impact as a folk genre, and their preservation.
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Various chapters on Music from Enslaved peoples from Readings in Black American Music by Eileen Southern. It includes one on Frederick Douglass from the section of Music on the Plantation, as well as a chapter on W.E.B. DuBois from the section of General Characteristics of Slave Music.
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A chapter on Hall Johnson, composer and arranger of African-American spiritual music, from Readings in Black American Music by Eileen Southern.
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A pamphlet containing information on the Archives and History of Bethel Baptist Institutional Church in Jacksonville (Fla.) It contains information of how the church was established as the first organized Baptist Church in Jacksonville, and how it was later separated from the white congregation after the Civil War. Moreover, this pamphlet also contains pictures of the different buildings that housed the congregation over time.
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An article titled "Old Churches" by Andy Lindstrom for the July 24, 1994 issue of the Tallahassee Democrat. It covers the history of old churches and the historic buildings that housed them in Tallahassee and surrounding areas. In addition, one of the churches covered is Thessalonia Missionary Baptist Church, an African American church in Wakulla county. It also covers histories from "Old First" First Presbyterian Church, Old Mount Pleasant Methodist Church in Gadsden county, United Methodist Church, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Miccosukee United Methodist Church.
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An article titled "With memories, a congregation says goodbye to its old church" by Karen E. Olson for the June 30, 1986 issue of the Tallahassee Democrat. It covers the transition of the Bethel A.M.E. Church from its old building to a new one. One of the first two African Methodist Episcopal churches in Tallahassee, the article also talks about its history, more specifically in civil rights.
