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Witnessing and testifying : Black women, religion, and civil rights / Rosetta E. Ross

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Author:
Ross, Rosetta E. 1955-  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 294 p., [7] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2003
C2003
20th century
Contents:
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 -- Ella Baker: passing on values of attending to the "least" -- Septima Poinsette Clark: education for citizenship -- Empowering local people as a moral value -- 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 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 -- 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 -- Testifying and witnessing -- Values and virtues: models and practices in black religious women's activism -- Black religious women and public life
Topic:
African Americans--Religion  Search this
African American women civil rights workers--Religious life--History  Search this
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity--History  Search this
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Islam--History  Search this
Civil rights--History  Search this
Womanist theology--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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