The sage of Tawawa
Subtitle: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959
By: Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Ransom, Reverdy C. 1861-1959.; African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Bishops -- Biography.
Description: ""I have lived through three generations. I have heard the rebel yell, the mourns and groans of slavery and the death rattle in the throat of the expiring monster as he was forever destroyed." When Reverdy Cassius Ransom expressed this, he was reflecting on almost ninety years of a life spent as a pastor, editor, politician, writer, civil rights leader, and bishop of the African Methodist episcopal Church. In The Sage of Tawawa, Annetta L.

Gomez-Jefferson offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction.".

"Educated at Wilberforce University in Ohio (after losing his scholarship from Oberlin College for protesting the segregation of the campus dining halls), Reverdy Cassius Ransom worked with and for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His duties saw him run for Congress, be elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serve as editor of the A.M.E. Church Review, and serve as church historiographer.

In July 1941 Ransom received a letter from President Roosevelt appointing him to the Volunteer Participation Committee in the Office of Civilian Defense."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Harriet Ransom's son, 1861-1886; title: Green and golden college days, 1881; title: Early itinerant ministry, 1886-1896; title: The institutional church, 1896-1904; title: New England years, 1904-1907; title: New York ministry, 1907-1912; title: Ransom the editor, 1912-1916; title: From editor to bishop, 1916-1924; title: Early Episcopal districts, 1924-1932; title: The fourth district and Wilberforce, 1932-1940; title: The Wilberforce dilemma and Sims trial, 1940-1947; title: Ransom the historiographer, 1947-1952; title: Epilogue: Ransom the ransomed, 1952-1959.