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African American Religious History: Great Migration
A guide for conducting research on African American religious history at the Yale Divinity Library.
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Great Migration and Religion
Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration (Online)
by
Matthew J. Cressler
Traces the developments within the church in Chicago to show how Black Catholic activists in the 1960s and 1970s made Black Catholicism as we know it today.
Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration (Online)
by
Milton C. Sernett
An examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I.
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration (Online)
by
Judith Weisenfeld
Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today
Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 (Online)
by
Wallace D. Best
Analyzes the various ways black southerners transformed African American religion in Chicago during their Great Migration northward.
Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940 (Online)
by
Robert Gregg
Focuses on the African Methodist churches and churchgoers in Philadelphia during the Great Migration and the concurrent rise of black ghettoes in the city to show the variety and richness of African American culture at that time.
Other Case Studies
Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and An Ethic of Resistance
by
Reggie L. Williams
Argues that the black American narrative led Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the truth that obedience to Jesus requires concrete historical action. This ethic of resistance not only indicted the church of the German Volk, but also continues to shape the nature of Christian discipleship today.
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
by
Brian McCammack
A history that frames the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience.
Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia (Online)
by
Deidre Helen Crumbley
Uses a church in Philadelphia to offer a unique perspective on an under-studied aspect of African American religious institutions. Illuminates the crucial role these oftentimes controversial churches played in the spiritual life of the African American community during and after the Great Migration.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Online)
by
Isabel Wilkerson
Tells the story of the Great Migration through the lives of three unique individuals.
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