SINGING IN A STRANGE LAND
Subtitle: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780252073908
Subjects: Biography: general; Religion & Beliefs; Sacred & religious music; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Christianity - History - Protestant; Cultural Heritage; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; People of Color; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Religious; African American Baptists; African American churches; Baptists; Biography; Clergy; History; United States
First sentence: "Fa-a-ther," intoned the young teenage soloist from the choir stand at St. Peter's Rock Baptist Church one Sunday morning in the late 1920s.