For God and race
Subtitle: the religious and political leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood
By: Sandy Dwayne Martin.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Hood, J. W. 1831-1918.; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church -- History.; African American clergy -- Biography.; African American clergy -- Political activity.
Description: "Until now, the public life of James Walker Hood (1831-1918), bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church and a major political and religious leader of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, has gone largely unexamined.

For God and Race recovers the public career of Hood as a representative of the major builders of independent black Christianity during this period who understood faithfulness to God as inseparable from the quest for racial justice, and it explores Hood's role in the AMEZ Church, a denomination known for its singular success in promoting leadership for the abolitionist movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-244) 3and index.