A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2
Title A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2 PDF eBook
Author David Henry Bradley
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages 500
Release 2020-03-09
Genre Religion
ISBN 1532688296

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In this second volume, David H. Bradley picks up the story of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion in 1873. From there he follows A. M. E. Zion’s growth through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, showing the denomination’s special capacity for empowering lay people to be crucial to African American organization in the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout, Bradley explores the dynamics of organizational institutionalization in the midst of new growth and transformation through the Great Migration and the flowering of A. M. E. Zion churches in new African American communities on the West Coast.

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2
Title A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2 PDF eBook
Author David Henry Bradley
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages 500
Release 2020-03-09
Genre Religion
ISBN 153268827X

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In this second volume, David H. Bradley picks up the story of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion in 1873. From there he follows A. M. E. Zion’s growth through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, showing the denomination’s special capacity for empowering lay people to be crucial to African American organization in the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout, Bradley explores the dynamics of organizational institutionalization in the midst of new growth and transformation through the Great Migration and the flowering of A. M. E. Zion churches in new African American communities on the West Coast.

A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church, Pt. II, 1872-1968

A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church, Pt. II, 1872-1968
Title A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church, Pt. II, 1872-1968 PDF eBook
Author David Henry Bradley
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Total Pages 500
Release 1970
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A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 1

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 1
Title A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 1 PDF eBook
Author David Henry Bradley
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages 216
Release 2020-03-09
Genre Religion
ISBN 1532688563

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First published in 1956, Rev. David S. Bradley Sr. wrote what was at the time and remains today the most thorough, scholarly history of the beginnings and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Beginning with the birth of A. M. E. Zion Chapel in a humble chapel in New York City, Part 1 traces the growth of the church into a powerful and agile denomination, expanding from the settled coast into the frontiers of upstate New York and western Pennsylvania. The advancing denomination, with natural and inherited "antagonism to slavery," attracted "freedmen, seeking spiritual freedom," including the famous black Abolitionist activists—Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass, who learned and honed his rhetorical skills as an exhorter in the A. M. E. Zion congregation in New Bedford, Massachusetts, under Reverend Thomas James. "No road was too pioneering no thought too liberal, for these were freedmen, seeking spiritual freedom . . . All along the Mason Dixon Line, and further West, in Ohio and Indiana, Zion Churchmen became beacon points of hope to the escaped slave and A. M. E. Zion became the church of freedom."

A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church

A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church
Title A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church PDF eBook
Author David Henry Bradley
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Release 1972
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Jesus, Jobs, and Justice

Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
Title Jesus, Jobs, and Justice PDF eBook
Author Bettye Collier-Thomas
Publisher Knopf
Total Pages 737
Release 2010-02-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0307593053

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“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the collapse of Jim Crow segregation and pondered the fate of African Americans. Following more than half a century of organizing and struggling against racism in American society, sexism in the National Baptist Convention, and the racism and paternalism of white women and the Southern Baptist Convention, Burroughs knew that black Americans would need more than religion to survive and to advance socially, economically, and politically. Jesus, jobs, and justice are the threads that weave through two hundred years of black women’s experiences in America. Bettye Collier-Thomas’s groundbreaking book gives us a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the centuries of American growth and change. It shows the beginnings of organized religion in slave communities and how the Bible was a source of inspiration; the enslaved saw in their condition a parallel to the suffering and persecution that Jesus had endured. The author makes clear that while religion has been a guiding force in the lives of most African Americans, for black women it has been essential. As co-creators of churches, women were a central factor in their development. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice explores the ways in which women had to cope with sexism in black churches, as well as racism in mostly white denominations, in their efforts to create missionary societies and form women’s conventions. It also reveals the hidden story of how issues of sex and sexuality have sometimes created tension and divisions within institutions. Black church women created national organizations such as the National Association of Colored Women, the National League of Colored Republican Women, and the National Council of Negro Women. They worked in the interracial movement, in white-led Christian groups such as the YWCA and Church Women United, and in male-dominated organizations such as the NAACP and National Urban League to demand civil rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities, and to protest lynching, segregation, and discrimination. And black women missionaries sacrificed their lives in service to their African sisters whose destiny they believed was tied to theirs. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice restores black women to their rightful place in American and black history and demonstrates their faith in themselves, their race, and their God.

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church. Pt.1

A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church. Pt.1
Title A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church. Pt.1 PDF eBook
Author David Henry Bradley
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Release 1956
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