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
Autor principal: Adams, Betty Livingston
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Church and social problems.
African American women > Religious life.
African American women in church work.
African American women civil rights workers.
RELIGION > Christian Life > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Defenseuses des droits de l'homme noires americaines > New Jersey > Summit > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Église et problemes sociaux > New Jersey > Summit.
Noires americaines dans la pastorale > New Jersey > Summit.
Noires americaines > New Jersey > Summit > Vie religieuse.
Church and social problems > New Jersey > Summit.
African American women civil rights workers > New Jersey > Summit > History > 20th century.
African American women in church work > New Jersey > Summit.
African American women > Religious life > New Jersey > Summit.
New Jersey > Summit.
Summit (N.J.) > Church history > 20th century.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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
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  • You just as well die with the ague as with the fever.

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