The Cost of Unity: African-American Agency and Education and the Christian Church, 1865-1914 (Voices of the African Diaspora) - Hardcover

Burnley, Lawrence A Q

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881461342 ISBN 13: 9780881461343

Publisher: Mercer University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Like other Protestant organizations in the United States, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was involved in the establishment of schools for African Americans in the South in the years following the end of the Civil War. This book examines the agency of African Americans in the founding of educational institutions for blacks associated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The philosophical discourse within the Christian Church concerning the purpose, type, and control of these schools is examined as well as the prevailing racial assumptions and attitudes that informed each of these areas. Utilizing historical research methods to reconstruct and interpret socio-historical phenomena, the author argues that African Americans within the Christian Church played an active role, both in cooperating with Disciples' mission agencies, and acting independent of these agencies, in the conceptualization and founding of schools for their communities.

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence A. Q. Burnley, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.), Christian Theological Seminary, (M.Div.), and the University of Cincinnati (BA honors). He currently serves as Associate Dean for Multicultural Programs and Special Assistant to the Provost for Diversity Affairs at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. He is a contributing author on the forthcoming A New History of the Stone/Campbell Movement (tentative title; St. Louis: Chalice Press, Fall 2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0881461342
• ISBN 13: 9780881461343
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307