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African American Baptists --- Baptists --- African American churches --- Clergy --- History. --- Franklin, C. L.

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Ten essayists discuss the black church's public activism on natioonal policy issues in the post Civil Rights period, focusing on issues such as health care, affirmative action, welfare reform, and public education.

African American churches --- History --- 20th century --- Christianity and politics --- United States --- Afro-American churches --- Black churches --- Churches, African American --- Negro churches --- African Americans --- Christian sects --- Religion

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Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932--a period that is often described as the nadir of black life in America--Lisa Materson demonstrates the impact that migrating southern black women had on midwestern and national politics, first in the Republican Party and later in the Democratic Party. Materson shows that as African American women migrated beyond the reach of southern white supremacists, they became active voters, canvassers, suffragi

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