Dillard, Angela D., 1965-

Faith in the city preaching radical social change in Detroit / [electronic resource] : Angela D. Dillard ; with a foreword by Charles G. Adams. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2007. - xxiv, 384 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-363) and index.

Evolving faith : Rev. Charles A. Hill and the making of a Black religious radical -- True versus false religion : the labor-civil rights community and the struggle to define a progressive faith, 1935-41 -- Explosive faith : the politics of religion in the arsenal of democracy -- To fulfill yesterday's promise : anticommunism and the demise of the early civil rights community -- The freedom struggle North and South : coalition politics and the foundation of a second civil rights community in Detroit -- Black faith : the Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., Black Christian nationalism, and the second civil rights community in Detroit -- Conclusion: Motown bs Burning, Jesus Is Black, and the struggle continues.


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Hill, Charles Andrew, 1893-1970.
Cleage, Albert B.


African Americans--Civil rights--History--Michigan--Detroit--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--Michigan--Detroit--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Michigan--Detroit--20th century.
Clergy--Political activity--History--Michigan--Detroit--20th century.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century.


Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--20th century.


Electronic books.

F574.D49 / N437 2007

323.1196/0730774340904