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Author:

Howard-Pitney, David.

Title:

The African American jeremiad : appeals for justice in America / David Howard-Pitney.

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

viii, 277 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--history
African American messianism--History.
Social reformers--United States--History.
Messianism, Political--United States--History.
Civil religion--United States--History.
Jeremiads--United States.
United States--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Howard-Pitney, David. Afro-American jeremiad.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The Afro-American jeremiad. 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-267) and index.

Contents:

Conclusion : the enduring black jeremiad. The brief life of Douglass's "new nation" : from emancipation-reconstruction to returning declension, 1861-1895 -- The jeremiad in the age of Booker T. Washington : Washington versus Ida B. Wells, 1895-1915 -- Great expectations : W.E.B. Du Bois's American jeremiad in the progressive era -- Mary McLeod Bethune and W.E.B. Du Bois : rising and waning hopes for America at midcentury -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and America's promise in the second reconstruction, 1955-1965 -- Malcolm X : Jeremiah to blacks, damner of whites - to the end? -- King's radical jeremiad, 1965-1968 : America as the "sick society" -- Conclusion : the enduring black jeremiad.

ISBN:

9781592134151 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1592134157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781592133284 (alk. paper)
1592133282 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58431842

LCCN:

2005040047

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)