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Faith in the city : preaching radical social change in Detroit  Cover Image E-book E-book

Faith in the city : preaching radical social change in Detroit / Angela D. Dillard ; with a foreword by Charles G. Adams.

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  • OCLC: ocn647836234
  • ISBN: 9780472024162 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0472024167 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 384 pages) : illustrations
  • Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2007.

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Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-363) and index.
Contents: Evolving faith : Rev. Charles A. Hill and the making of a Black religious radical -- True versus false religion : the labor-civil rights community and the struggle to define a progressive faith, 1935-41 -- Explosive faith : the politics of religion in the arsenal of democracy -- To fulfill yesterday's promise : anticommunism and the demise of the early civil rights community -- The freedom struggle North and South : coalition politics and the foundation of a second civil rights community in Detroit -- Black faith : the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., Black Christian nationalism, and the second civil rights community in Detroit -- Conclusion: Motown bs Burning, Jesus Is Black, and the struggle continues.
Subject: Hill, Charles Andrew, 1893-1970.
Cleage, Albert B., Jr., 1911-2000.
African Americans > Civil rights > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Michigan > Detroit > 20th century.
Clergy > Political activity > Michigan > Detroit > History > 20th century.
Civil rights > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions > 20th century.


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