Black Women's Christian Activism : Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb.

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When a domestic servant named Violet Johnson moved to the affluent white suburb of Summit, New Jersey in 1897, she became one of just barely 100 black residents in the town of 6000. In this avowedly liberal Protestant community, the very definition of 'the suburbs' depended on observance o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adams, Betty Livingston
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2016.
Temas:
1900-1999
African American women > Religious life > New Jersey > Summit.
African American women in church work > New Jersey > Summit.
African American women civil rights workers > New Jersey > Summit > History > 20th century.
Church and social problems > New Jersey > Summit.
Noires américaines > New Jersey > Summit > Vie religieuse.
Noires américaines dans la pastorale > New Jersey > Summit.
Église et problèmes sociaux > New Jersey > Summit.
Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines > New Jersey > Summit > Histoire > 20e siècle.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
RELIGION > Christian Life > General.
African American women civil rights workers
African American women in church work
African American women > Religious life
Church and social problems
Summit (N.J.) > Church history > 20th century.
New Jersey > Summit
Church history
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • A great work for God and humanity: African American Christian women and organized social reform
  • The home away from home: suffrage, war, and civic righteousness
  • Unholy and unchristian attitude: interracial dialogue in segregated spaces, 1920-1937
  • Putting real American ideals in American life: church women and electoral politics
  • Carthage must be destroyed: health, housing, and the new deal
  • You just as well die with the ague as with the fever.

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