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Witnessing and Testifying : Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights /

The Civil Rights Movement was not only an epochal social and political event but also a profound moral turning point in American history. Here, for the first time, social ethicist Ross examines the religiously motivated activism of black women in the movement and its moral import.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ross, Rosetta E., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.