Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xix |
The Road Ahead | p. xx |
Our Mother | p. 1 |
The African Origins of Humanity and Civilization | p. 1 |
The African Defenders of the Faith | p. 13 |
Discussion & Review Questions | p. 28 |
Christianity in Transition | p. 29 |
Roman Imperial Christianity | p. 29 |
African Developments Apart from Foreign Invasions and Colonization from 300 to 1450 C.E. | p. 35 |
Discussion & Review Questions | p. 47 |
The European Slave Trade | p. 49 |
Prelude to the Great Calamity | p. 49 |
The Middle Passage from Freedom to Slavery | p. 56 |
The American Practice of Slavery | p. 64 |
Discussion & Review Questions | p. 75 |
The Conversion of Enslaved Africans to the Practice of American Christianity | p. 77 |
Africa's First Encounter with Christian America | p. 77 |
Conversion and the Inspiration to Literacy | p. 91 |
The Silver Bluff Awakening | p. 97 |
The Age of the Heroic Preachers 1750-1800 | p. 102 |
The Historical Role of Women in the Black Church | p. 115 |
Discussion & Review Questions | p. 123 |
The Black Church and Black Reconstruction | p. 125 |
The Emergence of Independent Black Churches and Preachers | p. 125 |
The South as a Field of Mission | p. 135 |
Black Preachers as Political Leaders During Reconstruction | p. 138 |
The Determination and Drive to Establish Independent Black Churches | p. 145 |
Discussion & Review Questions | p. 149 |
The Struggle in the Wilderness | p. 151 |
The Emergence of Color Consciousness and Elitism among African Americans: Background to the Plessy v. Ferguson Travesty | p. 151 |
From Slavery to Peonage in the Post-Reconstruction South | p. 158 |
The Great Migration and the Initiation of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 161 |
The Emergence of Nonconformists, Radicals, and Militants in the African-American Religious Experience | p. 171 |
The Rise of Grassroots Protests Leading to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision | p. 177 |
Discussion & Review Questions | p. 186 |
The Civil Rights Movement as an Outgrowth of the Black Church | p. 187 |
The Montgomery Bus Boycott-The Empowerment of a Movement and the Coming of a Leader | p. 187 |
Confronting the Philistines-The Struggle to Bring Social Justice to Birmingham | p. 205 |
Gathering of the Masses-The Spiritual Power Base of the Movement | p. 213 |
Black Power Emerges out of the Movement | p. 217 |
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference-The Black Church as the Institutional Center of the Movement | p. 223 |
Discussion & Review Questions | p. 229 |
Conclusions | p. 231 |
The People Were Burdened with a Great Oppression | p. 231 |
And So God Called Them to Preach to the People | p. 237 |
Notes | p. 241 |
Bibliography | p. 311 |
Glossary of Selected Terms | p. 323 |
Index | p. 335 |
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