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ISBN10: 0674769783, ISBN13: 9780674769786, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Softcover What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbothams nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white womens groups.Higginbothams history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial ...

Harvard University Press, Date: 1994-03-15. 1st PAPERBACK. paperback. Used:Good. 1994. Harvard University Press ISBN 0674769783 9780674769786 [US]

ISBN10: 0674769783, ISBN13: 9780674769786, [publisher: Harvard University Press 3/15/1994] Softcover Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 0.95
[Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]
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Cambridge, Mass. |London Harvard University Press 1994 Revised ed. Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 0674769783, ISBN13: 9780674769786, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Softcover This is the first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. From 1880-1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and wome.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1994]
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Harvard Univ Pr, Date: 1994. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. 1994. Harvard Univ Pr ISBN 0674769783 9780674769786 [GB]

ISBN10: 0674769783, ISBN13: 9780674769786, [publisher: Harvard Univ Pr] Softcover reprint edition. 320 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1994]

Harvard University Press 1994 Revised ed. Trade paperback Very Good Signed Copy Collectible-Very Good. Inscribed by author on half title page.

ISBN10: 0674769783, ISBN13: 9780674769786, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Softcover Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on half title page.
[Frederick, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]

ISBN10: 0674769783, ISBN13: 9780674769786, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Softcover Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: HRCC92. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467. . 1994. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]

ISBN10: 0674769783, ISBN13: 9780674769786, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.2
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]

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