The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm

The African American Church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1815-1963: A Shelter in the Storm
ISBN-10
135162928X
ISBN-13
9781351629287
Category
Religion
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2017-09-06
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Jr., Wilson Fallin

Description

This study, first published in 1997, attempts to fill a gap in the historiography of the African American church by analysing the role and place of the African American church in one city, Birmingham, Alabama. It traces the roles and functions of the church from the arrival of African Americans as slaves in the early 1800s to 1963, the year that the civil rights movement reached a peak in the city. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious and social history.

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