The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama
Author: Charles Octavius Boothe
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 298
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Octavius Boothe
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Published: 2001
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume is a compendium of information about the people who worked to establish schools and churches in post-Civil War Alabama and descriptions of the major African American Baptist churches in that state. After a brief history on the development of slave religion, Charles Boothe devotes a chapter to Colored Baptist conventions after the war, including information on associations, membership size, offices and post offices. Another chapter of biographical sketches details the education, activities and family lives of important Baptist church and school leaders. Boothe concludes with histories of Selma University, Howard College, the Marion Academy and other post-war African-American schools and universities.
Author: Charles Octavius Boothe
Publisher: Lexham Press
Published: 2017-09-20
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 168359066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyday Christians need practical and accessible theology. In this handbook first published in 1890, Charles Octavius Boothe simply and beautifully lays out the basics of theology for common people. "Before the charge 'know thyself,'" Boothe wrote, "ought to come the far greater charge, 'know thy God.'" He brought the heights of academic theology down to everyday language, and he helps us do the same today. Plain Theology for Plain People shows that evangelicalism needs the wisdom and experience of African American Christians. Walter R. Strickland II reintroduces this forgotten masterpiece for today. Lexham Classics are beautifully typeset new editions of classic works. Each book has been carefully transcribed from the original texts, ensuring an accurate representation of the writing as the author intended it to be read.
Author: Charles Octavius Boothe
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 385
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 528
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wilson Fallin
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007-08-17
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0817315691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention—its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders. Fallin demonstrates that a distinctive Afro-Baptist faith emerged as slaves in Alabama combined the African religious emphasis on spirit possession, soul-travel, and rebirth with the evangelical faith of Baptists. The denomination emphasizes a conversion experience that brings salvation, spiritual freedom, love, joy, and patience, and also stresses liberation from slavery and oppression and highlights the exodus experience. In examining the social and theological development of the Afro-Baptist faith over the course of three centuries, Uplifting the People demonstrates how black Baptists in Alabama used faith to cope with hostility and repression. Fallin reveals that black Baptist churches were far more than places of worship. They functioned as self-help institutions within black communities and served as gathering places for social clubs, benevolent organizations, and political meetings. Church leaders did more than conduct services; they protested segregation and disfranchisement, founded and operated schools, and provided community leaders for the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century. Through black churches, members built banking systems, insurance companies, and welfare structures. Since the gains of the civil rights era, black Baptists have worked to maintain the accomplishments of that struggle, church leaders continue to speak for social justice and the rights of the poor, and churches now house day care and Head Start programs. Uplifting the People also explores the role of women, the relations between black and white Baptists, and class formation within the black church.
Author: Dominic J. CapeciJr.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-17
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0813156467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.