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. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 369 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



9781461935438


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


Electronic Books.

E185 / .F766 2013