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Community and Place: A Study of Four African American Benevolent Societies and their Cemeteries

By Kimberly Martin, Clemson University.

Danville Boyle County African-American Historical Society

The home page of the African American historical society of Boyle County and Danville, Kentucky. Vital records, family genealogies, historical articles, of Boyle and surrounding counties. Latest information on our new History Center, library and museum.

Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes Association

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Early Black Benevolent Societies, 1780-1830 (JSTOR)

Article by Robert L. Harris, Jr., The Massachusetts Review Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 603-625 (23 pages). JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Access via schools and libraries or subscribe as an individual to JPASS.

Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society

Detroit, Michigan.

International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry

A not-for-profit lineage society to perpetuate the memory of slave ancestors in America and around the world.

KAAHGS - Kansas Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

Lansing Area African American Genealogical Society

Lawnside Historical Society

Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical & Historical Society

Tappahannock, Virginia.

Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition (M.A.G.I.C.)

The purpose of the Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition (M.A.G.I.C.) is to promote genealogy and family history through the presentation of structured classes, exhibition of genealogies, guest lectures and tours of agencies which are considered sources of genealogical interest. Kansas City, Missouri.

Montclair African American Genealogy Meetup Group

Nicodemus Historical Society

Nicodemus, Kansas.

North Carolina African-American Historical Society

Raleigh.

Oberlin African-American Genealogy & History Group

Oberlin, Ohio.

Orange County African-American Historical Society (OCAAHS)

Orange, Virginia.

Organization despite Adversity: The Origins and Development of African American Fraternal Associations (JSTOR)

Article by Theda Skocpol and Jennifer Lynn Oser, Social Science History Vol. 28, No. 3, Special Issue: African American Fraternal Associations and the History of Civil Society in the United States (Fall, 2004), pp. 367-437 (71 pages). JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Access via schools and libraries or subscribe as an individual to JPASS.

Patricia Liddell Researchers - Chicago Chapter/Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc.

Illinois.

Prince Hall Freemasonry

San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society

San Francisco, California.