From every mountainside [[electronic resource] ] : black churches and the broad terrain of civil rights / / edited by R. Drew Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463353503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2013
• ISBN: 1-4619-3543-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SmithR. Drew <1956->
• Disciplina: 323.1196/073
• Soggetti: African Americans - Civil rights; African American churches - History; Civil rights movements - United States - History; Civil rights - Religious aspects - Christianity; Race relations - Religious aspects - Christianity; Electronic books.; United States Church history; United States Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Black church divisions and civil rights activism in Chicago / James R. Ralph, Jr. -- The NAACP, black churches, and the struggle for black empowerment in New Haven, 1955-1961 / Yohuru R. Williams -- Ruby Hurley, U.S. Protestantism, and NAACP student work, 1940-1950 / Rosetta E. Ross -- Black churches, peoples temple, and civil rights politics in San Francisco / James Lance Taylor -- Philadelphia's Opportunities Industrialization Center and the black church's quest for economic justice / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas -- The Black Panther Party and black churches / Steve McCutcheon, Judson L. Jeffries, Omari L. Dyson -- Racial discrimination and the radical politics of New York clergyman / Milton A. Galamison, Clarence Taylor -- Black clergy, educational fairness, and pursuit of the common good / R. Drew Smith -- Black churches and black voter suppression in Florida and Ohio / Maruice Mangum -- African American Churches, health care, and the health reform debate / Larry G. Murphy -- The Obama administration, faith-based policy, and religious groups' hiring rights / David K. Ryden ; -- Black church burnings in the 1990s and faith-based responses / Katie Day -- Civil rights rhetoric in media coverage of marriage equality debates: Massachusetts and Georgia / Traci C. West -- The feminization of HIV/AIDS and passivity of black church responses in Denver and beyond / Carroll Watkins Ali -- Black churches and African American opinion on immigration policy / R. Khari Brown -- Religious Others and a New Blackness in Post-9/11 California / James Lance Taylor.