To lift up my race
Subtitle: the essential writings of Samuel Robert Cassius
By: edited by Edward J. Robinson.
Contributors: Robinson, Edward J., 1967-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Knoxville, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781572336186
Subjects: African Americans -- Religion; Sermons, American -- African American authors; Black theology; Theology, Doctrinal
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The worlds of Samuel Robert Cassius; title: Racial uplift through evangelism; title: "The one object of my life" : Cassius's evangelism program; title: Family matters : a glimpse into Cassius's home life; title: Friends in white and black : Cassius's relationships with common and uncommon people; title: Racial uplift through religious education; title: "To lift up my race" : Cassius's educational program; title: The Cassius canon : Cassius's use of the Bible; title: Racial uplift through race pride; title: The Black man's paradise? Cassius and the Oklahoma experience; title: America's "race problem" : Cassius and race relations; title: Racial uplift through writing and traveling; title: "The third birth of a nation" : racial thought; title: The first globetrotter : many sojourns.