The paradox of embedded leadership: Black religious leaders as followers, pastors, and prophets / Harold E. Massey -- Notes on the typologies and political styles of Black leaders in America / Nannetta Durnell -- Sending up some timber: elderly slaves and religious leadership in the antebellum slave community / Stacey K. Close -- When Black gods preached on earth: the heavenly appeals of Prophet Cherry, Daddy Grace, and Father Divine / Benjamin Sevitch -- Father Divine's Peace Mission movement in the Great Depression / Benjamin Sevitch -- The AME Church and American politics / Larry Little -- One church, indivisible: the political structure of the AME / Larry Little -- Breaking the gender barrier: African-American women and leadership in Black holiness-pentecostal churches 1890-present / Felton O. Best -- For strangers, unborn babes, uncreated worlds: the mission of Malcolm X / Stephen R. Morris -- National news magazines portrayal of the Reverend Jesse Jackson as a mythical hero during the 1988 U.S. presidential campaign / Nannetta Durnell -- How should Black leadership respond to Farrakhan's attempt to legitimize his leadership in Black America? / Clarence Taylor -- The political dilemma of the Reverend Al Sharpton / Clarence Taylor -- Black church politics and the Million Man March / William E. Nelson Jr
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