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Select Gift: The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song

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The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, 2 DVD

The Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the vital center of the civil rights movement, and produced many of its leaders, from the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. on, but at the same time there have always been churches and sects that eschewed a more activist stance, even eschewed worldly political engagement altogether. The Black church is at the center of the action at every stage of the American story, as this enthralling story makes vividly clear.

 

 

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The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, Hardcover Book

In this book, his tender and magisterial reckoning with the meaning of the Black church in American history, Gates takes us from his own experience onto a journey across more than four hundred years and spanning the entire country. At road’s end, we emerge with a new understanding of the centrality of the Black church to the American story–as a cultural and political force, as the center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as an unparalleled incubator of talent, and as a crucible for working through the community’s most important issues, down to today.

 

 

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The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song, Collection

Includes The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song (2-DVD Set), the Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (2-DVD Set), The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross (2-DVD Set), and the Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2-DVD Set)