A Pursued Justice : black preaching from the great migration to civil rights /
Kenyatta R. Gilbert
- 2017 paperback edition.
- xiv, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index.
Introduction: Migration of hope -- The Exodus : History and voices of the Great Migration -- The promised land : Social crisis and the importance of black preaching -- Preaching as Exodus : Prophetic imagination, Praxis, and Aesthetics -- Exodus preaching : Gospel and migration -- Exodus as civil rights : King and beyond -- Conclusion : Petitionary truth telling.
"In the wake of a failed Reconstruction, widespread agricultural depression, and the rise of Jim Crow laws, and triggered by America's entry into World War I, a flood of southern Blacks moved from the South to the urban areas of the North. This Great Migration transformed northern Black churches and produced a new mode of preaching -- prophetic Black preaching -- which sought ot address this brand new context. A Pursued Justice profiles Black clerics such as Baptist pastor Reverand Adam Clayton Powell Sr., A.M.E. Bishop Reverdy Cassius Ransom, and A.M.E. Zion pastor Florence Spearing Randolph -- ecclesiastically inventive clerics of the first half of the twentieth century whose strident voices gave birth to a distinctive form of prophetic preaching. Their radical sermonic response to injustice and suffering, both in and out of the Black chuch, not only captured the imaginations of participants in the largest internal mass migration in American history but also inspired the homiletical vision of Martin Luther King Jr. and subsequent generations of preachers of revolutionary hope and holy disobedience." -- Back cover.
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African American preaching--United States. African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century. African American churches--History--United States--20th century. Black theology.