Archival Resources

Religious History In Birmingham

Armbrester, Margaret E., “Samuel Ullman: Birmingham Progressive.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVII. No. 1 (January 1994).

Barr, Terry, "Rabbi Grafman and Birmingham's Civil Rights Era. The Quiet Voices: "Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s. Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997.

Bass, S. Jonathan, Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight Religious Leaders, and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Bass, S. Jonathan, “Bishop C.C.J. Carpenter: From Segregation to Integration.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XLV, No. 3 (July 1992).

Blalock, Kay J., "The Irish Catholic Experience in Birmingham, Alabama, 1871- 1921. M.A. Thesis, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1989.

Cowett, Mark, Birmingham’s Rabbi: Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1986.
Reviewed:
The Alabama Review, Vol. XLI, No. 2 (April 1988) The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LIII, No. 4 (November 1987)

Cowett, Mark, "Morris Newfield, Alabama, and Blacks, 1895-1940. "The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880 to 1990s. Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997.

Elovitch, Mark H., A Century of Jewish Life in Dixie: The Birmingham Experience. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1974.
Reviewed: The Alabama Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 4 (October 1976)

Fallin, Wilson, The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.

Flynt, Wayne, “Religion in the Urban South: The Divided Religious Mind of Birmingham, 1900-1930.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (April 1977).

LaMonte, Edward S., “The Mercy Home and Private Charity in Early Birmingham.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. V, No. 4 (July 1978).

Manis, Andrew M., A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.

Pruitt, Paul M., “Private Tragedy, Public Shame.” Alabama Heritage, Fall 1993.

Rockaway, Robert A., “Notes and Documents: Jewish Immigrant Removals in Birmingham, Alabama.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 1 (January 1993).

Schnorrenberg, John M., Aspiration: Birmingham's Historic Houses of Worship. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 2000.

Waldrep, B. Dwain, “Fundamentalism, Interdenomionalism, and the Birmingham School of the Bible.” The Alabama Review, Vol. XLIX, No. 1 (January 1996).

Waldrep, B. Dwain, “Henry Edmonds and His Controversy With the Southern Presbyterian Church, 1913-1915.” The Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 1985).