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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Road Ahead | |
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| Our Mother | |
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| The African Origins of Humanity and Civilization | |
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| The African Defenders of the Faith | |
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| Discussion & Review Questions | |
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| Christianity in Transition | |
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| Roman Imperial Christianity | |
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| African Developments Apart from Foreign Invasions and Colonization from 300 to 1450 C.E. | |
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| Discussion & Review Questions | |
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| The European Slave Trade | |
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| Prelude to the Great Calamity | |
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| The Middle Passage from Freedom to Slavery | |
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| The American Practice of Slavery | |
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| Discussion & Review Questions | |
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| The Conversion of Enslaved Africans to the Practice of American Christianity | |
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| Africa's First Encounter with Christian America | |
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| Conversion and the Inspiration to Literacy | |
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| The Silver Bluff Awakening | |
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| The Age of the Heroic Preachers 1750-1800 | |
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| The Historical Role of Women in the Black Church | |
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| Discussion & Review Questions | |
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| The Black Church and Black Reconstruction | |
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| The Emergence of Independent Black Churches and Preachers | |
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| The South as a Field of Mission | |
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| Black Preachers as Political Leaders During Reconstruction | |
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| The Determination and Drive to Establish Independent Black Churches | |
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| Discussion & Review Questions | |
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| The Struggle in the Wilderness | |
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| The Emergence of Color Consciousness and Elitism among African Americans: Background to the Plessy v. Ferguson Travesty | |
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| From Slavery to Peonage in the Post-Reconstruction South | |
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| The Great Migration and the Initiation of the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| The Emergence of Nonconformists, Radicals, and Militants in the African-American Religious Experience | |
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| The Rise of Grassroots Protests Leading to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision | |
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| Discussion & Review Questions | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement as an Outgrowth of the Black Church | |
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| The Montgomery Bus Boycott-The Empowerment of a Movement and the Coming of a Leader | |
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| Confronting the Philistines-The Struggle to Bring Social Justice to Birmingham | |
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| Gathering of the Masses-The Spiritual Power Base of the Movement | |
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| Black Power Emerges out of the Movement | |
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| The Southern Christian Leadership Conference-The Black Church as the Institutional Center of the Movement | |
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| Discussion & Review Questions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The People Were Burdened with a Great Oppression | |
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| And So God Called Them to Preach to the People | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary of Selected Terms | |
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| Index | |