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Author:   David Howard-Pitney
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781566390866

ISBN 10:   1566390869
Pages:   139
Publication Date:   29 March 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Civil Religion and the Anglo-and Afro-American Jeremiads 1. Frederick Douglass's Antebellum Jeremiad against Slavery and Racism 2. The Brief Life of Douglass's ""New Nation"": From Emancipation-Reconstruction to Returning Declension, 1861-1895 3. The Jeremiad in the Age of Booker T. Washington: Washington versus Ida B. Wells, 1895-1915 4. Great Expectations: W.E.B. Du Bois's Jeremiad in the Progressive Era 5. Mary McLeod Bethune and W.E.B. Du Bois: Rising and Waning Hopes for America at Midcentury 6. Martin Luther King, Jr., and America's Promise in the Second Reconstruction, 1955-1965 7. King's Radical Jeremiad, 1965-1986: American as the ""Sick Society"" Conclusion: The Black Jeremiad and the Jackson Phenomenon Notes Index"

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In these troubled times, this book is a reminder of the power that black Americans exercised in moving toward...the American Dream that each of these leaders so eloquently, if differently, expressed... I cannot recommend The Afro-American Jeremiad too highly. It should be required reading from the White House to the schools in the poorest backwaters of this country. --The Journal of Southern History Howard-Pitney has identified the core beliefs and values that hold the nation together in her civil religion... By demonstrating how...Afro-Americans have drawn upon the jeremiad to make their case for justice and equality, the author has shown the enduring quality of this idea, which has been embraced and rejected by black leaders at various times. --Robert L. Harris, Jr., Cornell University This very fine monograph is significant because it explores one of the few points of leverage that Afro-American spokesmen had in the nineteenth century in attempting to break out of the race's powerlessness. Very compelling and thought-provoking. --Walter Jackson, North Carolina State University

Author Information

David Howard-Pitney is Professor of History at De Anza College. He has worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University, and during 2000-2002 was a Commissioned Scholar for the Public Influences of African-American Churches Project of Morehouse College. His publications include Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and '60s.

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