Explore the background and contemporary significance of Black religious activism in the USA.
In 1787, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones left the predominantly white St. George Methodist Episcopal Church to protest the racism and discrimination they faced. A few years later, both men created their own African American Christian denominations to meet the political and spiritual needs of Black communities. Over the following 200 years, Black leaders created countless religious organizations to meet those same needs, and contemporary Black religious communities continue to play an important role in local, regional, and national politics today.
An overview essay provides readers with a broad understanding of the movement, while a chronology situates key events in their historical context. Alphabetically arranged reference entries follow, providing objective and fundamental information about the people, organizations, and events that have shaped Black religious activism from Harriet Tubman to Raphael Warnock, the birth of the megachurch to the Black Lives Matter movement. Readers are encouraged to extend their understanding of the topic with cross-references and suggestions for further reading after each entry.
Alphabetical List of Entries
Series Foreword
Preface
Overview
Acknowledgments
A to Z
Abolition Movement
Adam Clayton Powell
Ahmadiyya Mission in America
Albert Cleage
Alexander Crummell
AME and AMZ Church
A. Phillip Randolph
Azusa Street Revival
Baynard Rustin
Black Lives Matter
Church of God of Saints and Christ
Commandment Keepers
Conjure in the Antebellum
David Walker
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Ella Baker
Fannie Lou Hamer
Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement
Frederick Haynes and Friendship West Baptist Church
Free African Society
Great Migration
Harriet Tubman
Henry Highland Garnet
Holiness Movement
James Cone/Black Liberation Theology
John Lewis
Katie Canon/Womanist Theology
Louis Farrakhan and Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Megachurch Movement
Million Man March
MOVE
National Negro Convention
Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey
Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Temple
Pauli Murray
Pentecostal Movement
Progressive Baptist Convention
Rainbow/PUSH/Jesse Jackson
Raphael Warnock
Richard Allen
Robert Alexander Young and the Ethiopian Manifesto
Smallwood Williams and Bible Way Church
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
UNIA and Marcus Garvey
Voodoo in the South
William Barber and the New Poor People's Campaign
Annotated Bibliography
Index
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