Records of St. John's Ev/UCC, Valmeyer, IL
Title | Records of St. John's Ev/UCC, Valmeyer, IL PDF eBook |
Author | Candice Schuler |
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Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Church records and registers |
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Includes both indexes and the church records to St. John's E & R Church, Valmeyer, Illinois (1907-1966), and the St. John's United Church of Christ, Valmeyer, Illinois (the successor).
St. John's Ev/UCC, Valmeyer, IL, 1907-1966
Title | St. John's Ev/UCC, Valmeyer, IL, 1907-1966 PDF eBook |
Author | St. John's E. & R. Church (Valmeyer, Ill.) |
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Pages | |
Release | 196? |
Genre | Church records and registers |
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Church register of St. John's E. & R. Church, also known as St. John's Evangelical/United Church of Christ in Valmeyer, Monroe County, Illinois, 1907-1966.
African American Religious Studies
Title | African American Religious Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Gayraud S. Wilmore |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780822309260 |
Gayraud S. Wilmore is Professor of Church History and Afro-American Religious Studies at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published numerous articles and booksl including Black Witness to the Apostolic Faith, David Shannon, co-ed.; Black and Presbyterian: The Heritage and the Hope; and Last Things First. Professor Wilmore is the recpicient of the Bruce Klunder Award of the Presbyterian Interracial Councils (1969), the Sward of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Harlem (1971), and various honorary degrees.
The Black Power Movement
Title | The Black Power Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Peniel E. Joseph |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136773401 |
The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has collected the freshest and most impressive list of contributors around to write original essays on the Black Power Movement. Taken together they provide a critical and much needed historical overview of the Black Power era. Offering important examples of undocumented histories of black liberation, this volume offers both powerful and poignant examples of 'Black Power Studies' scholarship.
We Ask Only a Fair Trial
Title | We Ask Only a Fair Trial PDF eBook |
Author | Darrel E. Bigham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
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"Darrel Bigham's history of the black community of Evansville [is] a first-rate contribution to the literature of black urban history. It thoroughly surveys all aspects of the black community -- economic, social, and political -- and additionaly provides a valuable comparative framaework for the understanding of black occupations and family structure." -- Kenneth L. Kusmer.
The Beloved Community
Title | The Beloved Community PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Marsh |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2008-07-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0786722193 |
A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared that their common goal was not simply the end of segregation as an institution. Rather, "the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the beloved community." King's words reflect the strong religious convictions that motivated the African American civil rights movement. As King and his allies saw it, "Jesus had founded the most revolutionary movement in human history: a movement built on the unconditional love of God for the world and the mandate to live in that love." Through a commitment to this idea of love and to the practice of nonviolence, civil rights leaders sought to transform the social and political realities of twentieth-century America. In The Beloved Community, theologian and award-winning author Charles Marsh traces the history of the spiritual vision that animated the civil rights movement and shows how it remains a vital source of moral energy today. The Beloved Community lays out an exuberant new vision for progressive Christianity and reclaims the centrality of faith in the quest for social justice and authentic community.
River Jordan
Title | River Jordan PDF eBook |
Author | Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1998-03-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780813109503 |
Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.