Cultural Resource Survey: African American Churches in the Missouri Bootheel

Parks, Arnold

From introduction: "The Missouri Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation Program contracted with Lincoln University to complete a historic resources survey of African American Churches in small towns and rural areas of the Missouri bootheel. The latter program administrators grant funds from the United States Department of Interior, National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund. The goals addressed in this particular project were three fold and included 1) the identification and evaluation of African American church architectural and historic resources in the survey area; 2) the documentation of this important resource (rural African American Churches) before they are lost to history and; 3) most importantly, the discernment of any individual properties and/or groups of properties that may potentially be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The African American Churches in Rural and Small Town Missouri: The Bootheel Region Project is the first phase of a survey of African American churches in the southeast part of Missouri commonly referred to as the "bootheel." The result was a thematic study of architectural and historic resources within southeast Missouri, particularly those resources related to rural and small town African American churches. This phase of the survey concentrated in two (2) counties (Pemiscot and Dunklin). Surveys were produced for ten (10) African American churches." Funding was provided in part by a 2000 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office (project number MO-00-531, grant number 29-00-15328) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Cultural Resource Survey: African American Churches in the Missouri Bootheel

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