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Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago This much-needed history of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem is a must-read' for generations of Americans who want to know the complex and complicated story of the black religious tradition, the black church tradition, and the intersectionality of race, religion, and politics amidst the ever-changing and evolving landscape of life for Africans in New York City -- from the days following the Civil War up through the Great Migration and on into the twenty-first century. . . . A debt of gratitude is owed to Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, and Kevin McGruder! These dedicated historians have captured an important segment of black church history and written about it with passion and with care. Lawrence H. MamiyaVassar College A magnificent history of an outstanding African-American congregation with a national pulpit for its preachers. On the basis of meticulous research, the authors have chronicled the triumphs and the failures, the harmonious unity and the conflicts within the two-hundred-year history of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. . . . This history serves as a model for the history of other church congregations. Booklist Abyssinian Baptist has been central to the development of African-American Christianity as a force for social justice. Antislavery in its beginnings, Abyssinian has always taken seriously the Christian injunction to minister to the needy and assert the commonality of all in the sight of God, necessarily beginning at home, among black people. From its second century -- the twentieth -- to the present, its pastors have been national figures, especially the controversial Adam Clayton Powell Jr. . . . This is a basic resource in African-American history. Cornel Westfrom afterword Magisterial. . . . A powerful and poignant book.

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Genna Rae McNeil is a professor at the University of North Carolina; she specializes in African-American history and twentieth-century social movements in the United States. Her other books include Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Houston Bryan Roberson is author of Fighting the Good Fight: The Story of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865-1977. Quinton Hosford Dixie is coauthor (with Peter Eisenstadt) of Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence and coeditor of Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption. Kevin McGruder is a professor of African and African-American studies at Lehman College in New York City.

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