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03473aam a2200325 i 4500 001 7760AEDAB85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161202010137 008 160205s2016 txu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016003768 020 $a 1481303988 020 $a 9781481303989 035 $a (OCoLC)945804209 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d PUL $d LNT $d GGB $d CNTCS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BV4208 U6 G55 2016 100 1 $a Gilbert, Kenyatta R., $e author. 245 12 $a A pursued justice : $b Black preaching from the great migration to civil rights / $c Kenyatta R. Gilbert. 264 1 $a Waco, Texas : $b Baylor University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xiv, 210 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The migration of hope -- The exodus : history and voices of the great migration -- The promised land : social crisis and the importance of Black preaching -- Preaching as exodus : prophetic imagination, praxis, and aesthetics -- Exodus preaching : gospel and migration -- Exodus as Civil Rights : King and beyond -- Conclusion: Petitionary truth telling -- Appendix A: Chapter 4 sermons -- Appendix B: Chapter 5 sermons. 520 $a The narrative of Civil Rights often begins with the prophetic figure of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. City squares became a church, the body politic a congregation, and sermons a jeremiad of social change--or so the story goes. In A Pursued Justice, Kenyatta Gilbert instead traces the roots of KingÌs call for justice to African American prophetic preaching that arose in an earlier moment of American history.In the wake of a failed Reconstruction period, widespread agricultural depression, and the rise of Jim Crow laws, and triggered by AmericaÌs entry into World War I, a flood of southern Blacks moveÌd from the South to the Ìurban centers of the North. This Great Migration transformed northern Black churches and produced a new mode of preaching--prophetic Black preaching--which sought to address this brand new context.Black clerics such as Baptist pastor Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Sr., A.M.E. Bishop Reverdy Cassius Ransom, and A.M.E. Zion pastor Reverend Florence Spearing Randolph rose up within these congregations. From their pulpits, these pastors "spoke truth to power" for hope across racial, ethnic, and class lines both within their congregations and between the Black community and the wider culture.A Pursued Justice profiles these three ecclesiastically inventive clerics of the first half of the twentieth century whose strident voices gave birth to a distinctive form of prophetic preaching. Their radical sermonic response to injustice and suffering, both in and out of the Black church, not only captured the imaginations of participants in the largest internal mass migration in American history but also inspired the homiletical vision of Martin Luther King Jr. and subsequent generations of preachers of revolutionary hope and holy disobedience. - book flap. 650 0 $a African American preaching $x History $y 20th century. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Gilbert, Kenyatta R., author. $t Pursued justice. $d Waco : Baylor University Press, 2016 $z 9781481304009 $w (DLC) 2016015635 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802022122.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7760AEDAB85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search