From Every Mountainside
Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights
Published on 2. January 2014
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Paperback/Softback
381 pages
978-1-4384-4724-7 (ISBN)
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Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.
It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society. Individual essays point to the multiple directions the quest for civil rights has taken, into the North and West, and into policy areas left unresolved since the end of the 1960s, including immigrant and gay rights, health care for the uninsured, and the persistent denials of black voting rights and school equality. In exploring these issues, the volume's contributors shed light on distinctive regional dimensions of African American political and church life that bear in significant ways on both the mobilization of civil rights activism and the achievement of its goals.
It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society. Individual essays point to the multiple directions the quest for civil rights has taken, into the North and West, and into policy areas left unresolved since the end of the 1960s, including immigrant and gay rights, health care for the uninsured, and the persistent denials of black voting rights and school equality. In exploring these issues, the volume's contributors shed light on distinctive regional dimensions of African American political and church life that bear in significant ways on both the mobilization of civil rights activism and the achievement of its goals.
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"This volume collects essays stretching across time and geographic space to provide a historically and sociologically rich look at historic and contemporary black churches and activism on issues ranging from traditional civil rights concerns to immigrant and gay rights, health care policy, voter suppression, HIV/AIDS, and educational policy ... Highly recommended." - CHOICE"It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society ... [the] contributors shed light on distinctive regional dimensions of African American political and church life that bear in significant ways on both the mobilization of civil rights activism and the achievement of its goals." - Sir Read a Lot
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
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2 Tables, black and white; 1 Figures
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-4724-7 (9781438447247)
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R. Drew Smith is Scholar-in-Residence in the Leadership Center at Morehouse College. He is the editor of several books, including Freedom's Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa and Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction by R. Drew Smith
Mid-Twentieth Century Church Activism Beyond the South
1. Black Church Divisions and Civil Rights Activism in Chicago
James R. Ralph, Jr., Middlebury College
2. The NAACP, Black Churches, and the Struggle for Black Empowerment in New Haven, 1955-1961
Yohuru R. Williams, Fairfield University
3. Ruby Hurley, U.S. Protestantism, and NAACP Student Work, 1940-1950
Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College
4. Black Churches, Peoples Temple, and Civil Rights Politics in San Francisco
James Lance Taylor, University of San Francisco
5. Philadelphia's Opportunities Industrialization Center and the Black Church's Quest for Economic Justice
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt Divinity School
6. The Black Panther Party and the Black Church
Steve McCutcheon, Carl B. Munck Elementary School
Judson L. Jeffries, Ohio State University
Omari L. Dyson, South Carolina State University
7. Racial Discrimination and the Radical Politics of New York Clergyman, Milton A. Galamison
Clarence Taylor, Baruch College
Public Sphere Capital and Contemporary Rights Expectations
8. Black Clergy, Educational Fairness, and Pursuit of the Common Good
R. Drew Smith, Morehouse College
9. Black Churches and Black Voter Suppression in Florida and Ohio
Maurice Mangum, Texas Southern University
10. African American Churches, Health Care, and the Health Reform Debate
Larry G. Murphy, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
11. The Obama Administration, Faith-Based Policy, and Religious Groups' Hiring Rights
David K. Ryden, Hope College
Prevailing Boundaries of Social Difference
12. Black Church Burnings in the 1990s and Faith-Based Responses
Katie Day, Luthern Theological Seminary
13. Civil Rights Rhetoric in Media Coverage of Marriage Equality Debates: Massachusetts and Georgia
Traci C. West, Drew University
14. The Feminization of HIV/AIDS and Passivity of Black Church Responses in Denver and Beyond
Carroll Watkins Ali, Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance
15. Black Churches and African American Opinion on Immigration Policy
R. Khari Brown, Wayne State University
16. Religious Others and a New Blackness in Post 9/11 California
James Lance Taylor, University of San Francisco
Contributors
Index
Introduction by R. Drew Smith
Mid-Twentieth Century Church Activism Beyond the South
1. Black Church Divisions and Civil Rights Activism in Chicago
James R. Ralph, Jr., Middlebury College
2. The NAACP, Black Churches, and the Struggle for Black Empowerment in New Haven, 1955-1961
Yohuru R. Williams, Fairfield University
3. Ruby Hurley, U.S. Protestantism, and NAACP Student Work, 1940-1950
Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College
4. Black Churches, Peoples Temple, and Civil Rights Politics in San Francisco
James Lance Taylor, University of San Francisco
5. Philadelphia's Opportunities Industrialization Center and the Black Church's Quest for Economic Justice
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt Divinity School
6. The Black Panther Party and the Black Church
Steve McCutcheon, Carl B. Munck Elementary School
Judson L. Jeffries, Ohio State University
Omari L. Dyson, South Carolina State University
7. Racial Discrimination and the Radical Politics of New York Clergyman, Milton A. Galamison
Clarence Taylor, Baruch College
Public Sphere Capital and Contemporary Rights Expectations
8. Black Clergy, Educational Fairness, and Pursuit of the Common Good
R. Drew Smith, Morehouse College
9. Black Churches and Black Voter Suppression in Florida and Ohio
Maurice Mangum, Texas Southern University
10. African American Churches, Health Care, and the Health Reform Debate
Larry G. Murphy, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
11. The Obama Administration, Faith-Based Policy, and Religious Groups' Hiring Rights
David K. Ryden, Hope College
Prevailing Boundaries of Social Difference
12. Black Church Burnings in the 1990s and Faith-Based Responses
Katie Day, Luthern Theological Seminary
13. Civil Rights Rhetoric in Media Coverage of Marriage Equality Debates: Massachusetts and Georgia
Traci C. West, Drew University
14. The Feminization of HIV/AIDS and Passivity of Black Church Responses in Denver and Beyond
Carroll Watkins Ali, Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance
15. Black Churches and African American Opinion on Immigration Policy
R. Khari Brown, Wayne State University
16. Religious Others and a New Blackness in Post 9/11 California
James Lance Taylor, University of San Francisco
Contributors
Index