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A history of how African American churches produced political firebrands in a call for civil rights and justice

What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view a

The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell a

From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race