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Author:
Adams, Betty Livingston, author.
Title:
Black women's Christian activism : seeking social justice in a northern suburb / Betty Livingston Adams.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
African American women--Religious life--Summit.--Summit.
African American women in church work--Summit.--Summit.
African American women civil rights workers--Summit--Summit--History--20th century.
Church and social problems--Summit.--Summit.
Summit (N.J.)--Church history--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Please allow me space: race and faith in the suburbs -- A great work for God and humanity: African American Christian women and organized social reform -- The home away from home: suffrage, war, and civic righteousness -- Unholy and unchristian attitude: interracial dialogue in segregated spaces, 1920-1937 -- Putting real American ideals in American life: church women and electoral politics -- Carthage must be destroyed: health, housing, and the new deal -- You just as well die with the ague as with the fever.
ISBN:
0814745466
9780814745465
OCLC:
(OCoLC)918986560
LCCN:
2015031363
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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