Can I Get a Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women 
Subtitle: An Anthology
Contributors: Marcia Y. Riggs (Editor); Barbara Holmes (Editor)
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: February 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781570751134
Subjects: Christian theology; Social issues; Women's studies; Spirituality - Women's; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Church And Social Problems; Women And The Church; Theology - Feminine; Religious life; Religion; Religious aspects; Race relations; Christian Ministry - Evangelism; Christianity; Christian Theology - General; African American women
Description: Assembling a chorus of voices from history, Can I Get A Witness? chronicles African American women's lives as faithful witnesses to the prophetic dimensions of the Gospel, from slavery times to the present.

Using touchstones of significant moments - slavery and emancipation, the Great Awakening and suffragism, women's clubs and missionary movements, and the great Civil Rights struggles - Can I Get A Witness? documents the crucial links between faith and the struggle for justice that forms the basis of the contemporary womanist movement.

Many African American women, famous or not, are represented, including Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, and many others. Whether confessional, homiletic, political, or poetic, their voices bear witness on the part of African American women to the God who created, redeemed, and sustained them for the work of liberation.