The African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Dennis C. Dickerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521191521

Explores the emergence of African Methodism within the black Atlantic and how it struggled to sustain its liberationist identity.

Crusade for Justice

Crusade for Justice
Author: Ida B. Wells
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2020-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 022669156X

The NAACP co-founder, civil rights activist, educator, and journalist recounts her public and private life in this classic memoir. Born to enslaved parents, Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster. “No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice.” —William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History

New Dictionary of South African Biography

New Dictionary of South African Biography
Author: E. J. Verwey
Publisher: HSRC Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780796916488

This series of publications aims to fill the gaps in our history, highlighting in particular the significant roles played by black leaders form all walks of life.

The Black Studies Reader

The Black Studies Reader
Author: Jacqueline Bobo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2004-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1135942579

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Engendering Church

Engendering Church
Author: Jualynne E. Dodson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780847693818

Engendering Church explores the power, processes, and circumstances that brought about the new gender relations in the African Methodist Church--one of the largest African American denominations in the U.S. Dodson's historical account of the church and its many changes shows that unless women hold church positions, they are overlooked as proactive agents of organizational power. She also links the church to broader social change. When women began to function in key leadership roles in African American churches, they also contributed to more rapid improvement in the living conditions for blacks in the United States.

Evangelists of Empire?

Evangelists of Empire?
Author: Amanda Barry
Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0980759404

Utilising a range of source material and a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this ground-breaking collection offers the reader new ways of assessing the uneven paths of mission endeavours, and examines the ways in which Indigenous peoples responded to -- and took ownership of -- aspects of Christian and Western culture and spirituality.