TY - BOOK AU - Bradley,David Henry TI - A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2: 1872-1968 SN - 9781532688294 AV - BX8453 U1 - 287.83 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Eugene PB - Wipf and Stock Publishers KW - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church KW - History KW - fast KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Leadership KW - Electronic books N1 - Description based upon print version of record N2 - In this second volume, David H. Bradley picks up the story of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion in 1873. From there he follows A. M. E. Zion's growth through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, showing the denomination's special capacity for empowering lay people to be crucial to African American organization in the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout, Bradley explores the dynamics of organizational institutionalization in the midst of new growth and transformation through the Great Migration and the flowering of A. M. E. Zion churches in new African American communities on the West Coast UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2614113 ER -