Uplifting the people
Subtitle: three centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama
By: Wilson Fallin, Jr.
Series: Religion and American culture
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780817315696
Subjects: Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention -- History; African American Baptists -- Alabama -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slaves, Afro-Baptist faith, and Black preachers; title: God's gift of freedom; title: Church life, expansion, and denominational concerns; title: Education, Black nationalism, and sociopolitical concerns; title: Theology and leadership; title: Protest, growth, and revivalism; title: Urbanization and economic self-help; title: Between the wars; title: Rising militancy; title: Protest and reorganization; title: Continuity, preservation, and challenge.