Studies in African American History and Culture
Making the Gods in New York: The Yoruba Religion in the African American Community
1st Edition
By Mary Cuthrell Curry
December 01, 1997
Over the last 35 years, practice of Santeria and the Yoruba religion in the United States has grown as the result of African American search for identity and large scale Cuban migration. While the ritual and belief systems of Santeria and the Yoruba Religion are essentially the same, the practical ...
Beneath the Image of the Civil Rights Movement and Race Relations: Atlanta, GA 1946-1981
1st Edition
By David A. Harmon
January 01, 1996
This study is the story of the local Civil Rights Movement and race relations in Atlanta, Georgia from 1946 to 1981. Most examinations of the Civil Rights Movement have been written from a national perspective. These studies have presented local African American protest movements as part of a ...
James W.C. Pennington: African American Churchman and Abolitionist
1st Edition
By Herman E. Thomas
March 01, 1995
The story of James W.C. Pennington who was a former slave, then a Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement. He escaped from slavery aged 19 in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery before the Civil War. In 1837 he was ...