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Tells the story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movement in Amer. history -- the Civil Rights movement. Brings to life the pivotal moments facing men & women of faith in this monumental history. The stories begin with ministers leading rebellions against slavery & men & women who used faith in God to rise above the brutality of being demeaned as slaves. Here are stories of politics, tent revivals, & the import. of black churches as touchstones for every step of the faith journey that became the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s & 1960s. Using archival & contemporary photos, historical res., & interviews, & featuring messages from some of today's clergy, this is the first in-depth treatment of this social history. Companion to the PBS TV series.
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Juan Williams is the author of the acclaimed PBS series companion volume Eyes on the Prize. He is a senior correspondent for NPR, political analyst for Fox News, and the host of America's Black Forum. Williams worked at the Washington Post for twenty-three years as a columnist, editorial writer, and White House correspondent. He has won an Emmy Award for his television documentary writing and has contributed features to Fortune, Atlantic Monthly, Ebony, GQ, New Republic, and Black Issues Book Review. He is a graduate of Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
Williams, who wrote the companion volume to the award-winning PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize, and Dixie, an Indiana University professor, offer a well-illustrated companion volume to the upcoming PBS series "This Far by Faith." They follow the traditional contours of other studies of African-American religious history, beginning with slavery and following the tale through the emergence of free black churches; the nadir of the late 19th century; the Great Migration; the rise of black nationalism and urban religious traditions in the early 20th century; the civil rights movement; and the embrace of alternative religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and the Five Percenters in the 1970s through the 1990s. One particularly interesting segment discusses those mid-20th century black Christian leaders who adopted conservative stances on integration; Williams and Dixie have done a great service by presenting these ministers' views alongside the more familiar stories of civil rights leaders, demonstrating the ideological diversity of the African-American church. At times, the book's writing style can be abrupt and jerky, switching from one historical figure to the next, or between different cities, without transitions to help the reader. The prose is also overburdened with romantic language about heroes who laid their all at the altar of sacrifice, etc.-a device that may work well over six separate installments of a television series, but quickly becomes redundant in print. The real strength here is not the writing but the 76 memorable photographs and illustrations, which powerfully attest to the courage and religious convictions of generations of African Americans.
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Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0756793262
- ISBN 13 9780756793265
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages326
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