Black Bishop: Edward T. Demby and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Episcopal Church by Michael J. BearyNarrates the shifting alliances within the Episcopal Church and shows how race was but one aspect of a more elemental struggle for power. He demonstrates how Demby's steadiness of purpose and non-confrontational manner gathered allies on both sides of the color line and how, ultimately, his judgment and the weight of his experience carried the church past its segregationist experiment.
Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom by Larry Eugene RiversThis first-of-its-kind biography tells the story of Rev. James Page, who rose from slavery in the nineteenth century to become a religious and political leader among African Americans as well as an international spokesperson for the cause of racial equality.
For God and Race: The Religious and Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker HoodAn examination of the career of James Walker Hood (1831-1918), bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. It recovers his career as a representative of the builders of black Christianity, and his success in promoting leadership for the abolitionist movement.
The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel by Gary DorrienDescribes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to its close association in the twentieth century with W. E. B. Du Bois. He offers a new perspective on modern Christianity and the civil rights era by delineating the tradition of social justice theology and activism that led to Martin Luther King Jr.
W.E.B. DuBois Papers (Microfilm): Yale LibraryThe papers contain correspondence and printed materials reflecting his work with the NAACP, his teaching and research at Atlanta University, his involvement in radical causes, and his activity in the peace movement.
The Imposing Preacher: Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Black Public Faith (Online) by Adam L. BondShows how Proctor, as the product of a prophetic black church tradition, a social gospel-laced liberal Protestantism, and a black middle-class integrationist ethos, envisioned a pulpit activism through which the United States could realize an integrated civil society and was able to anticipate themes articulated by black religious movements of the late twentieth century.