The African American Community in Rural New England
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Clinton A. M. E. Zion Church
Published on 15. January 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-61472-004-1 (ISBN)
Description
The African American Community in Rural New England is the often heroic tale of a small group of African Americans who founded and have maintained their church in a small New England town for nearly 140 years. The church is the Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the town is Great Barrington, Massachusetts - the hometown of the leading African American scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois attended the church as a youth and wrote about it; these writings are one source for this history. The book gives readers a broad view of the details of the church's history and recounts the story of its growth. Du Bois plays a crucial role in the national fight for social justice, of which the church was and remains an important part.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Great Barrington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61472-004-1 (9781614720041)
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DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON is the author of the novels Tell Me How This Ends Well and Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence. He's received fellowships from Yaddo, the Jentel Foundation, Ledig House, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Marguerite & Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers. He was first runner-up in The Flannery O'Connor Story Prize and placed third in The Atlantic Monthly's fiction competition for his story, "Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will," which was chosen by Mary Gaitskill. Since then, his stories and poetry have appeared in storySouth, The Brooklyn Review, Prairie Schooner, The Toronto Quarterly, West Branch, Post Road, and Fresh.Ink, among others. He served as the Fellow in Fiction at Emory University from 2013 to 2015. He teaches fiction workshops for Writing Workshops Dallas, Gemini Ink, and UCLA Online.He's a co-founder of The Big Texas Read, a virtual online bookclub featuring Texas authors.