Author: Samuel GompersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Seventy Years of Life and Labour
Author: Samuel GompersSeventy Light Years
Author: Freddie YoungPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571197934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Academy Award-winning cinematographer of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago tells his story, from his early days processing celluloid in silent movies to his work with Ava Gardner and Elizabeth Taylor, among many others.
The Black Church
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
The Seventy's Course in Theology; Second Year, Outline History of the Dispensations of the Gospel
Author: B. H. RobertsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387072066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Doctrine and Covenants, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun., the Prophet, for the Building Up of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days
Author: Joseph Smith (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
History of Pembroke, N. H. 1730-1895
Author: Nathan Franklin CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Smith College Studies in History
Author: The Case for the Filipinos
Author: Maximo Manguiat KalawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Radical History Review: Volume 70
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521637619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Feature articles in this issue include: "Women and Guilds in Bologna: The Ambiguities of 'Marginality'," by Dora Dumont; "Unpacking the First Person Singular: Negotiating Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Chile," by Andy Daitsman; "Culture Wars Won and Lost, Part II: Ethnic Museums on the Mall," by Fath Davis Ruffins (a continuation of an article published in RHR 68); and "'All the Intensity of My Nature': Ida B. Wells and African-American Women's Anger in History," by Patricia A. Schechter.