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

Taylor, Clarence

Black religious intellectuals the fight for equality from Jim Crow to the twenty-first century / [Texte imprimé] : Clarence Taylor - New York : Routledge, 2002 - 1 vol. (229 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm - Crosscurrents in African American history . - Crosscurrents in African American history (Routledge, London) .

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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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