Author: Jack GanttPublisher: Grace UMC Pickens, SC
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
History of Grace UMC Pickens, SC
Author: Jack GanttPublisher: Grace UMC Pickens, SC
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Grace United Methodist Church
Author: Jack GanttPublisher:
ISBN: 9781884416590
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Who Lynched Willie Earle?
Author: William H. WillimonPublisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1501832522
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Pastors and leaders long to speak an effective biblical word into the contemporary social crisis of racial violence and black pain. They need a no-nonsense strategy rooted in actual ecclesial life, illuminated in this fine book by a trustworthy guide, Will Willimon, who uses the true story of pastor Hawley Lynn’s March of 1947 sermon, “Who Lynched Willie Earle?” as an opportunity to respond to the last lynching in Greenville, South Carolina and its implications for a more faithful proclamation of the Gospel today. By hearing black pain, naming white complicity, critiquing American exceptionalism/civil religion, inviting/challenging the church to respond, and attending to the voices of African American pastors and leaders, this book helps pastors of white, mainline Protestant churches preach effectively in situations of racial violence and dis-ease.
They Stole Him Out of Jail
Author: William B. GravelyPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611179386
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
“Reminds readers that the history of lynching and racial violence in the United States is not a closed book, but an ever-relevant story.” —Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Before daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the murder of a Greenville, South Carolina, taxi driver named T. W. Brown, was abducted from his jail cell by a mob, and then beaten, stabbed, and shot to death. An investigation produced thirty-one suspects, most of them cabbies seeking revenge for one of their own. The police and FBI obtained twenty-six confessions, but, after a nine-day trial in May that attracted national press attention, the defendants were acquitted by an all-white jury. In They Stole Him Out of Jail, William B. Gravely presents the most comprehensive account of the Earle lynching ever written, exploring it from background to aftermath and from multiple perspectives. Among his sources are contemporary press accounts (there was no trial transcript), extensive interviews and archival documents, and the “Greenville notebook” kept by Rebecca West, the well-known British writer who covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine. Gravely meticulously recreates the case’s details, analyzing the flaws in the investigation and prosecution that led in part to the acquittals. Vivid portraits emerge of key figures in the story, including both Earle and Brown, Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore, Governor Strom Thurmond, and West, whose article “Opera in Greenville” is masterful journalism but marred by errors owing to her short stay in the area. Gravely also probes problems with memory that resulted in varying interpretations of Willie Earle’s character and conflicting narratives about the lynching itself.
The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Author: Charles Henry PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Methodist History
Author: Bibliographic Guide to North American History
Author: Who's who in Religion
Author: The Christian as Minister
Author: Meg LassiatPublisher: United Methodist General Board of Higher Education
ISBN: 9780938162636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This book is a compilation of information about the call to ministry and the avenues The United Methodist Church offers to embody that call. It is based in the concept of servant ministry and servant leadership presented by the Council of Bishops.
Traditions and History of Anderson County
Author: Louise Ayer VandiverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anderson County (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description