Black women's Christian activism: seeking social justice in a northern suburb
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" depended o...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York University Press
[2016]
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New Jersey
/ Baptist
/ Women, Black
/ Race relations in literature
/ Social ministry
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| Further subjects: | B
African American women in church work
New Jersey
Summit
B African American women in church work B Church and social problems New Jersey Summit B Weibliche Schwarze B Religious life B Summit (N.J.) Church history 20th century New Jersey Summit B African American Women Religious life New Jersey Summit B Religion B African American Women Religious life B New Jersey B Church and social problems B African American women civil rights workers History 20th century New Jersey Summit B African American women civil rights workers |
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| Summary: | 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" depended on observance of unmarked and fluctuating race and class barriers. But Johnson did not intend to accept the status quo. Establishing a Baptist church a year later, a seemingly moderate act that would have implications far beyond weekly worship, Johnson challenged assumptions of gender and race, advocating for a politics of civic righteousness that would grant African Americans an equal place in a Christian nation. Johnson's story is powerful, but she was just one among the many working-class activists integral to the budding days of the civil rights movement. In Black Women's Christian Activism, Betty Livingston Adams examines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth of northern suburbs and American Protestantism in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the strategies and organizational models church women employed in the fight for social justice, Adams tracks the intersections of politics and religion, race and gender, and place and space in a New York City suburb, a local example that offers new insights on northern racial oppression and civil rights protest. As this book makes clear, religion made a key difference in the lives and activism of ordinary black women who lived, worked, and worshiped on the margin during this tumultuous time. (Publisher) |
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| Item Description: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index |
| ISBN: | 0814745466 |