Long March Ahead
Subtitle: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America (Public Influences of African American Churches)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780822333586
Subjects: American studies; Christianity; Human rights; Social Science; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States; Christianity - History - General; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Christianity - History - Social Issues; Political History; African American Studies; Political Science/U.S. Politic; Religious Studies; Christianity - Baptists; Christianity - Baptist; 20th century; African American churches; Christianity and politics; History
Description: "Analyzing the extensive data gathered by the Public Influences of African American Churches project, which surveyed nearly two thousand churches across the country, Long March Ahead assesses the public policy activism of black churches since the civil rights movement. Social scientists and clergy consider the churches' work on a range of policy matters over the past four decades: affirmative action, welfare reform, health care, women's right, education, and anti-apartheid activism. Some essays consider advocacy trends broadly. Others focus on specific cases, such as the role of African American churches in defeating the "One Florida" plan to end affirmative action in college admissions and state contracting or the partnership forged between police and inner-city black ministers to reduce crime in Boston during the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.