Sherry Sherrod DuPree
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Mrs. Sherry Sherrod DuPree was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Matthew and Elouise Heartley Sherrod, the oldest of three children. She is married to Herbert DuPree, they moved to Gainesville in 1977 from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is mother of three sons, a retired professor and reference librarian, Santa Fe College and University of Florida. She was the first African American to receive tenure from the University of Florida Library System in 1983.
Sherry received her B.S. in vocational home economics in 1968 and M.A. in educational media in 1969 from North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC. Her degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are an AMLS in academic librarianship in 1974 and Ed.S. in educational technology in 1978 and has engaged in additional study at the University of Florida, University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida. During her career in higher education she has taught three generations of undergraduates, supervised students, served as a consultant and conducted workshops. Sherry has presented numerous seminars at state and national conventions and published several articles dealing with information technology, religion and cultural diversity issues.
Sherry received grants from the University of Florida Gatorade Foundation in 1982 -1987 to research and write the biographical dictionary of African American Holiness-Pentecostal Movement; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to travel to the Center for Research Libraries at the University of Chicago in 1983; received computer and printing equipment from IBM Corporation 1983; received funds from the Florida Humanities Council to build and travel the Rosewood Exhibit in 1995-1998; participated on the State of Florida Sacred Steel Guitar music grant in 1994 and served as a Florida Humanities scholar for gospel music.
Sherry, Garlenda Greene-Grant, Murray Laurie, Jim Powell and Patti Bartlett mapped the Pleasant Plains Cemetery and researched the roles of African Americans on the Dudley Farm to be included in the National Register of Historic Places in Newberry in 2006. Sherry served on several Florida historical research teams: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek; Haile Homestead, Gainesville; Newberry Six Lynching, Newberry; Father Dr. Henry N. Abraham, Lawtey; Ocoee Massacre 1920, Orlando along with the Rosewood Massacre of 1923.
Sherry serves (1997 - 2013) on the State of Florida Department of Education African American History Task Force, the Florida Historical Marker Board (1999-2001) and the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network (FAAHPN). Now that Sherry is retired, she volunteer her time conducting oral interviews at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project (SPOHP) University of Florida, and is director of The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) Center since 2010.
Author of eight books has written several encyclopedia articles to enhance African American religion, gospel music, genealogy and civil rights: The Encyclopedia of African-American Associations, Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, and The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. She is a collector of four distinguished Holiness Pentecostal Collections; 1) the DuPree African-American Pentecostal and Holiness Collection at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; 2) Wisconsin Historical Society, Sherry DuPree Miscellaneous Religious Periodicals; 3) Sherry Sherrod DuPree collection on the African-American Holiness and Pentecostal movements, circa 1887-2001at the, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution; 4) University of Southern California, Digital Library, Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive (PCRA) Pentecostal Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI), Los Angeles, CA, DuPree Holiness and Pentecostal Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA .
She was a former associate editor of PNEUMA Journal, President of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) 2000-2001, board member of the Middle Atlantic Regional Press, Washington, DC 1987-2004, board member of the Matheson Museum, board member of Florida’s Rosewood Heritage Foundation (1986-present), Smithsonian Fellow in 1987, Washington, DC, and archivist of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, Detroit for ten years. Florida awards; Ebony Outstanding Citizens, Susan B. Anthony, Hall of Fame Santa Fe College, State of Florida Religion, Rosa Parks Quiet Courage. Sherry is listed in several issues of Who's Who Among Black Americans, Who's Who in America 2006, Who’s Who in Education, Contemporary Authors, Vol. 156, Who's Who in the South and Southwest and British sources.
Five Holiness Pentecostal Movement Books
Address: Gainesville, Florida, United States
Mrs. Sherry Sherrod DuPree was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Matthew and Elouise Heartley Sherrod, the oldest of three children. She is married to Herbert DuPree, they moved to Gainesville in 1977 from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is mother of three sons, a retired professor and reference librarian, Santa Fe College and University of Florida. She was the first African American to receive tenure from the University of Florida Library System in 1983.
Sherry received her B.S. in vocational home economics in 1968 and M.A. in educational media in 1969 from North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC. Her degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are an AMLS in academic librarianship in 1974 and Ed.S. in educational technology in 1978 and has engaged in additional study at the University of Florida, University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida. During her career in higher education she has taught three generations of undergraduates, supervised students, served as a consultant and conducted workshops. Sherry has presented numerous seminars at state and national conventions and published several articles dealing with information technology, religion and cultural diversity issues.
Sherry received grants from the University of Florida Gatorade Foundation in 1982 -1987 to research and write the biographical dictionary of African American Holiness-Pentecostal Movement; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to travel to the Center for Research Libraries at the University of Chicago in 1983; received computer and printing equipment from IBM Corporation 1983; received funds from the Florida Humanities Council to build and travel the Rosewood Exhibit in 1995-1998; participated on the State of Florida Sacred Steel Guitar music grant in 1994 and served as a Florida Humanities scholar for gospel music.
Sherry, Garlenda Greene-Grant, Murray Laurie, Jim Powell and Patti Bartlett mapped the Pleasant Plains Cemetery and researched the roles of African Americans on the Dudley Farm to be included in the National Register of Historic Places in Newberry in 2006. Sherry served on several Florida historical research teams: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek; Haile Homestead, Gainesville; Newberry Six Lynching, Newberry; Father Dr. Henry N. Abraham, Lawtey; Ocoee Massacre 1920, Orlando along with the Rosewood Massacre of 1923.
Sherry serves (1997 - 2013) on the State of Florida Department of Education African American History Task Force, the Florida Historical Marker Board (1999-2001) and the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network (FAAHPN). Now that Sherry is retired, she volunteer her time conducting oral interviews at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project (SPOHP) University of Florida, and is director of The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) Center since 2010.
Author of eight books has written several encyclopedia articles to enhance African American religion, gospel music, genealogy and civil rights: The Encyclopedia of African-American Associations, Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, and The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. She is a collector of four distinguished Holiness Pentecostal Collections; 1) the DuPree African-American Pentecostal and Holiness Collection at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; 2) Wisconsin Historical Society, Sherry DuPree Miscellaneous Religious Periodicals; 3) Sherry Sherrod DuPree collection on the African-American Holiness and Pentecostal movements, circa 1887-2001at the, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution; 4) University of Southern California, Digital Library, Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive (PCRA) Pentecostal Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI), Los Angeles, CA, DuPree Holiness and Pentecostal Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA .
She was a former associate editor of PNEUMA Journal, President of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) 2000-2001, board member of the Middle Atlantic Regional Press, Washington, DC 1987-2004, board member of the Matheson Museum, board member of Florida’s Rosewood Heritage Foundation (1986-present), Smithsonian Fellow in 1987, Washington, DC, and archivist of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, Detroit for ten years. Florida awards; Ebony Outstanding Citizens, Susan B. Anthony, Hall of Fame Santa Fe College, State of Florida Religion, Rosa Parks Quiet Courage. Sherry is listed in several issues of Who's Who Among Black Americans, Who's Who in America 2006, Who’s Who in Education, Contemporary Authors, Vol. 156, Who's Who in the South and Southwest and British sources.
Five Holiness Pentecostal Movement Books
Address: Gainesville, Florida, United States
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