Author: Charles Henry PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Author: Charles Henry PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Directory, City of Athens, Georgia
Author: Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920
Author: Elizabeth Hayes Turner Associate Professor of History University of HoustonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195358678
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
In this work, Elizabeth Turner addresses a central question in post-Reconstruction social history: why did middle-class women expand their activities from the private to the public sphere and begin, in the years just before World War I, an unprecedented activism? Using Galveston as a case study, Turner examines how a generally conservative, traditional environment could produce important women's organizations for Progressive reform. She concludes that the women of Galveston, though slow to respond to national movements, were stirred to action on behalf of their local community. Local organizations, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, and traditional everyday social activities provided a nurturing environment for budding reformers, and a foundation for activist organizations and programs such as poor relief and progressive reform. Ultimately, women became politicized even as they continued their roles as guardians of traditional domestic values. Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to scholars and students of the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, activist history, and religious history.
Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia
Author: Ernest C. HyndsPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Published in 1974, Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia is a chronicle of sixty years of change in Clarke County and the city of Athens. In 1801, Clarke County, newly created from Jackson County, was virtually all Georgia farmland, and Athens was a portion of land set aside for the establishment of a state university. In those first years of the century, the university began with thirty or forty students. They received instruction from Josiah Meigs--president and faculty of the university--in a twenty-by-twenty-foot log cabin. By 1846, the population of the county was over four thousand, and the area prospered. Cotton mills dotted the banks of the Oconee River, the Georgia Railroad connected Athens with Augusta, numerous schools and churches had been established, and newspapers, banks, and small businesses were all part of the Athens scene. Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia is rich with detail. This historical narrative recalls not only the growth of industry, government, and education within Clarke County, but also contains many anecdotes of the early people who lived there. The chronology of dates and events and the comprehensive listing of public officials, professional men, planters, and businessmen found in the appendixes of Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia add to the value of this work of local history.
Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion's Herald
Author: The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans
Author: James B. BennettPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170843
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records, Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century. Churches remained a source of hope and a means of resistance against segregation, rather than a retreat from racial oppression. Especially in the decade after Reconstruction, churches offered the possibility of creating a common identity that privileged religious over racial status, a pattern that black church members hoped would transfer to a national American identity transcending racial differences. Religion thus becomes a lens to reconsider patterns for racial interaction throughout Southern society. By tracing the contours of that hopeful yet ultimately tragic journey, this book reveals the complex and mutually influential relationship between church and society in the American South, placing churches at the center of the nation's racial struggles.
A History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William HardenPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The Huntington Family in America
Author: Huntington Family AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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Biographic Register of the Department of State
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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