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Black religious intellectuals : the fight for equality from Jim Crow to the twenty-first century / Clarence Taylor.

By: Taylor, Clarence
Material type: TextTextSeries: Crosscurrents in African American history: Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Description: 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415933277 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415933269 (alk. paper)Subject(s): African American clergy -- Biography | African American intellectuals -- Biography | African American leadership | African American clergy -- Political activity | African Americans -- Civil rights | African Americans -- ReligionDDC classification: 200/.92/396073 | B LOC classification: BR563.N4 | T383 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-220) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Black intellectuals: a more inclusive perspective -- Sticking to the ship: manhood, fraternity, and the religious world view of A. Philip Randolph -- Expanding the boundaries of politics: the various voices of the Black religious community of Brooklyn, New York before and during the Cold War -- The Pentecostal preacher as public intellectual and activist: the extraordinary leadership of Bishop Smallwood Williams -- The Reverend John Culmer and the politics of Black representation in Miami, Florida -- The Reverend Theodore Gibson and the significance of Cold War liberalism in the fight for citizenship -- "A natural born leader": the politics of the Rev. Al Sharpton -- The evolving spiritual and political leadership of Louis Farrakhan: from Allah's masculine warrior to ecumenical sage -- Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, and the challenge to male patriarchy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-220) and index.

Introduction: Black intellectuals: a more inclusive perspective -- Sticking to the ship: manhood, fraternity, and the religious world view of A. Philip Randolph -- Expanding the boundaries of politics: the various voices of the Black religious community of Brooklyn, New York before and during the Cold War -- The Pentecostal preacher as public intellectual and activist: the extraordinary leadership of Bishop Smallwood Williams -- The Reverend John Culmer and the politics of Black representation in Miami, Florida -- The Reverend Theodore Gibson and the significance of Cold War liberalism in the fight for citizenship -- "A natural born leader": the politics of the Rev. Al Sharpton -- The evolving spiritual and political leadership of Louis Farrakhan: from Allah's masculine warrior to ecumenical sage -- Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, and the challenge to male patriarchy.

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