Web Links: Historical Perspectives

Native Americans and Christians

Roger Williams: Plea for Religious Liberty
www.constitution.org/bcp/religlib.htm

American Indian Religious Freedom Act
https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Laws/airfa.html

NativeReligion.org
nativereligion.org

Establishment or Tolerance?

John Winthrop: A Modell of Christian Charity
www.winthropsociety.org/doc_charity.php

Roger Williams: A Bloudy Tenant of Persecution
www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/31-wil.html

Trial of Anne Hutchison
personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/hutchinson.html

William Penn
www.quakerinfo.com/article1045.html

Flushing Remonstrance
www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs301a1v,0,7673847.story

ADL Press Release on Flushing Remonstrance
www.adl.org/presrele/CvlRt_32/3852_32.asp

“Free Exercise” of Religion

Thomas Jefferson: An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact_draft_1779.html

de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.html

American Jewish Historical Society on the "Jew Bill"
www.ajhs.org/publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=220

The Williamsburg Charter
religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/const/Willburg.html

African Religion in America

Salih Bilali
cti.itc.virginia.edu/~roots/costa/bilali.html

Omar Ibn Said
ibiblio.org/afam_authors/said/said.html
www.ibiblio.org/afam_authors/said/saidtxt.html

David Walker's Appeal
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931t.html

Sojourner Truth: What Ails the Constitution
docsouth.unc.edu/neh/truth75/truth75.html

Richard Allen: On Black Methodism
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p97.html

Jarena Lee
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h1638.html

PBS: Africans in America
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

African Muslims in the Antebellum South
www.savannahnow.com/stories/032799/ACCmuslimslaves.html

Alternative Altars

Emerson and Thoreau: Hinduism
www.walden.org
www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/ralphwaldoemerson.html

Helena Blavatsky: Key to Theosophy
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/key/key-hp.htm

Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures
www.mbeinstitute.org/SAH/SAH.htm

PBS: Joseph Smith
www.pbs.org/americanprophet/joseph-smith.html

Catholic and Jewish Immigrants

Archbishop John Hughes on Education
www.cny.org/archive/ft/ft070600.htm

Josiah Strong: Our Country
etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/yankee/cycath1.html

Jewish Response to School Prayer: Religious Action Center's Page on School Prayer
www.rac.org//issues/issuesp.html#values

Asians and Asian Exclusion

Chinese Exclusion Act
www.cetel.org/1882_exclusion.html

Chinese Immigration to the United States
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/chinimms/chinimms.html

History of Migration and Immigration Laws in the United States
www.umass.edu/complit/ogscl/jana/janahistoryofimmigration.htm

Pioneer Asian Immigration to the U.S.
www.lib.ucdavis.edu/punjab/mexhindu.html

Parliament of Religions, 1893

Council for the Parliament of World's Religions
www.cpwr.org

John Henry Barrows: The World's Parliament of Religions
www3.edgenet.net/fcarpenter/parliam.html

Swami Vivekananda's Remarks at the Parliament
www.geocities.com/neovedanta/a32.html
www.ramakrishna.org/chcgfull.htm

God’s Melting Pot

J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/home.html

Israel Zangwill: The Melting Pot
www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/emeltpot.htm

Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/010212monday.html

Xenophobia: Closing the Door

U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind
www.multiracial.com/government/thind.html

Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California
www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes/chapter10/chapter10.html

Ozawa Decision
www.multiracial.com/government/ozawa.html

A Three Religion Country

John Courtney Murray: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition
woodstock.georgetown.edu/library/Murray/whtt_index.htm

Address of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960
www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/JFK+Pre-Pres/…

A New Multireligious America

Martin Luther King Center
thekingcenter.com

Buddhist Mayflower Crossing
www.baus.org/baus/library/mayflower.html

Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago
www.ramatemple.org

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