Witnessing and Testifying Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights

Name: Witnessing and Testifying Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights
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ISBN: 9780800636036

ISBN-10: 0800636031

ISBN-13: 9780800636036

Edition: 2003

Authors: Rosetta E. Ross

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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 1/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Photography Credits


Acknowledgments


Preface



Religion and Public Life: Early Traditions of Black Religious Women's Activism


Working for Survival and Liberation: Racial Uplift and Social Responsibility


Womanist Theology and "Keeping on Down the Freedom Road"


Witnessing and Testifying


Sojourner Truth: A Black Religious Woman's Antebellum Activism


Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Turn-of-the-Century Activist



Continuing the Traditions: Attention to the "Least" in Civil Rights Activism


Ella Baker: Passing on Values of Attending to the "Least"


Septima Poinsette Clark: Education for Citizenship


Empowering Local People as a Moral Value



Giving the Movement Life: Black Women's Grassroots Activism


Fannie Lou Hamer: Realizing Promises of Religious Faith and Hope


Victoria Way DeLee: Community Activism as Religious Practice


Self-Realization as Moral Practice from a Grassroots Perspective



Clara Muhammad: Supporting Movement Ideas Outside Its Mainstream


Clara Muhammad and the Nation of Islam


Religious and Moral Influences in Muhammad's Early Life


Muhammad's Role in the Development of the Nation of Islam


Muhammad's Religious and Moral Perspectives



"Fire Shut Up in My Bones": Black Women Students in the Movement


Diane Nash: Passionate Agitation for Positive Quality of Life


Ruby Doris Smith Robinson: Building Community and Sustaining Community Protest


Nash and Robinson: Young Visionary Activists



Testimony, Witness, and Civic Life: The Meaning of Black Women's Civil Rights Participation


Testifying and Witnessing


Values and Virtues: Models and Practices in Black Religious Women's Activism


Black Religious Women and Public Life


Notes


Bibliography


Index