Black religious intellectuals : the fight for equality from Jim Crow to the twenty-first century / / Clarence Taylor.

• Superior document: Crosscurrents in African American history
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Taylor, Clarence.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Crosscurrents in African American history.
• Physical Description: 229 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Black intellectuals : a more inclusive perspective -- Sticking to the ship : manhood, fraternity, and the religious world view of A. Philip Randolph -- Expanding the boundaries of politics : the various voices of the Black religious community of Brooklyn, New York before and during the Cold War -- The Pentecostal preacher as public intellectual and activist : the extraordinary leadership of Bishop Smallwood Williams -- The Reverend John Culmer and the politics of Black representation in Miami, Florida -- The Reverend Theodore Gibson and the significance of Cold War liberalism in the fight for citizenship -- "A natural born leader" : the politics of the Rev. Al Sharpton -- The evolving spiritual and political leadership of Louis Farrakhan : from Allah's masculine warrior to ecumenical sage -- Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, and the challenge to male patriarchy.