From every mountainside : black churches and the broad terrain of civil rights /

From every mountainside : black churches and the broad terrain of civil rights / edited by R. Drew Smith. - xi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Black church divisions and civil rights activism in Chicago / James R. Ralph, Jr. -- The NAACP, black churches, and the struggle for black empowerment in New Haven, 1955-1961 / Yohuru R. Williams -- Ruby Hurley, U.S. Protestantism, and NAACP student work, 1940-1950 / Rosetta E. Ross -- Black churches, peoples temple, and civil rights politics in San Francisco / James Lance Taylor -- Philadelphia's Opportunities Industrialization Center and the black church's quest for economic justice / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas -- The Black Panther Party and black churches / Steve McCutcheon, Judson L. Jeffries, Omari L. Dyson -- Racial discrimination and the radical politics of New York clergyman / Milton A. Galamison, Clarence Taylor -- Black clergy, educational fairness, and pursuit of the common good / R. Drew Smith -- Black churches and black voter suppression in Florida and Ohio / Maruice Mangum -- African American Churches, health care, and the health reform debate / Larry G. Murphy -- The Obama administration, faith-based policy, and religious groups' hiring rights / David K. Ryden -- Black church burnings in the 1990s and faith-based responses / Katie Day -- Civil rights rhetoric in media coverage of marriage equality debates: Massachusetts and Georgia / Traci C. West -- The feminization of HIV/AIDS and passivity of black church responses in Denver and beyond / Carroll Watkins Ali -- Black churches and African American opinion on immigration policy / R. Khari Brown -- Religious Others and a New Blackness in Post-9/11 California / James Lance Taylor.

9781438447254 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1438447256 (hardcover : alk. paper)

40022472668

2012027404

016316868 Uk


African Americans--Civil rights.
African American churches--History.
Civil rights movements--History.--United States
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.


United States--Church history.
United States--Race relations.

E185.61 / .F9158 2013

323.1196/073

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