"'I love the Lord, He heard my cry, ' Deacon cries out as the newly gathered congregation, now seated in their pews, echoes his words in a plaintive tune." Thus begins the Devotional at St. John Progressive Baptist Church, one of many Afro-Baptist services that Walter Pitts obse…
Following the author's fieldwork in black Baptist churches in Texas, he retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses uncover striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and religious rituals in West …
"'I love the Lord, He heard my cry, ' Deacon cries out as the newly gathered congregation, now seated in their pews, echoes his words in a plaintive tune." Thus begins the Devotional at St. John Progressive Baptist Church, one of many Afro-Baptist services that Walter Pitts obse…
"'I love the Lord, He heard my cry, ' Deacon cries out as the newly gathered congregation, now seated in their pews, echoes his words in a plaintive tune." Thus begins the Devotional at St. John Progressive Baptist Church, one of many Afro-Baptist services that Walter Pitts obse…
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 a hundred black residents in the town of six thousand. In this avowedly liberal Protestant community, the very definition of "the suburbs"…
"This would be the first comprehensive intellectual history of Burroughs and a compendium of her most important and influential work. As a force in the civil rights movement of the early 20th century, Burroughs and her work has largely been relegated to inclusion in larger narra…
"This would be the first comprehensive intellectual history of Burroughs and a compendium of her most important and influential work. As a force in the civil rights movement of the early 20th century, Burroughs and her work has largely been relegated to inclusion in larger narra…
"This would be the first comprehensive intellectual history of Burroughs and a compendium of her most important and influential work. As a force in the civil rights movement of the early 20th century, Burroughs and her work has largely been relegated to inclusion in larger narra…
"This would be the first comprehensive intellectual history of Burroughs and a compendium of her most important and influential work. As a force in the civil rights movement of the early 20th century, Burroughs and her work has largely been relegated to inclusion in larger narra…
