The last blues preacher : Reverend Clay Evans, black lives, and the faith that woke the nation /

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Born in 1925 into a life of sharecropping in Brownsville, Tennessee, Clay Evans was desperate to escape life working for the descendants of plantation owners. At night, he listened to jazz musicians like Cab Calloway and Guy Lombardo on the radio and imagined one day singing on a secular stage. But...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mills, Zachary William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, ©2018.
Temas:
Evans, Clay, > Rev.
African American Baptists > Biography.
African American clergy > Biography.
Gospel singers > United States > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Baptistes noirs américains > Biographies.
Clergé noir américain > Biographies.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Biographies.
RELIGION > Christianity > Baptist.
African American Baptists.
African American clergy.
Civil rights workers.
Gospel singers.
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Beginnings. 1. Who me?
  • 2. Ear all the way down
  • 3. Walk in Jerusalem
  • 4. A home over in Zion
  • 5. A love supreme
  • 6. A charge I have to keep
  • part 2. Launching the ship. 7. Got a new name
  • 8. It's growing!
  • 9. Reverend Mother York
  • 10. What a fellowship!
  • part 3. On open seas. 11. Looking for a city called heaven
  • 12. Singing in Zion
  • 13. The tempest is raging
  • 14. Breaking bread together
  • 15. Sweeping through the city
  • part 4. Docking the ship. 16. The captain retires
  • 17. I've got a testimony
  • 18. Last of the blues preachers?

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