TY  - DATA
AU  - Adams,Betty Livingston
TI  - Black Women’s Christian Activism: Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb 
SN  - 9781479880324
AV  - BR563.B53 A33 2016eb
U1  - 277.49/36082082 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - African American women civil rights workers
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Summit
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African American women in church work
KW  - African American women
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Church and social problems
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award RecipientWinner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non-fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Winner, 2020 Kornitzer Book Prize, given by Drew UniversityExamines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth of northern suburbs and American Protestantism in the first half of the twentieth centuryWhen a domestic servant named Violet Johnson moved to the affluent white suburb of Summit, New Jersey in 1897, she became one of just barely a hundred black residents in the town of six thousand. In this avowedly liberal Protestant community, the very definition of “the suburbs” depended on observance of unmarked and fluctuating race and class barriers. But Johnson did not intend to accept the status quo. Establishing a Baptist church a year later, a seemingly moderate act that would have implications far beyond weekly worship, Johnson challenged assumptions of gender and race, advocating for a politics of civic righteousness that would grant African Americans an equal place in a Christian nation. Johnson’s story is powerful, but she was just one among the many working-class activists integral to the budding days of the civil rights movement.Focusing on the strategies and organizational models church women employed in the fight for social justice, Adams tracks the intersections of politics and religion, race and gender, and place and space in a New York City suburb, a local example that offers new insights on northern racial oppression and civil rights protest. As this book makes clear, religion made a key difference in the lives and activism of ordinary black women who lived, worked, and worshiped on the margin during this tumultuous time
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814745465.001.0001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479880324
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479880324/original
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