Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Money in the Jim Crow South

Serier

1 of 5

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Religion og spiritualitet

“A significant work of scholarship that tells us not just about these particular places, but more importantly about the world of Black higher education in the decades before the civil rights movement.”—Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Money in the Jim Crow South, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of the founding and development of Richmond Theological Seminary (Virginia), Central City College (Macon, Georgia), and American Baptist Theological Seminary (Nashville, Tennessee)—colleges that saw challenges, complexities, and hard-won accomplishments in the Post-Reconstruction era. Her study begins just after the Civil War, when one of these institutions provided educational opportunities for newly freed slaves, and follows the fortunes of the schools through the 1960s.

Mathews reveals the financial, curricular, and identity struggles of schools that came into being and survived under difficult circumstances. The institutions relied on funding from White Baptists, but also had to fight against control and exploitation from those who helped them financially. Though each school evolved with a different identity and educational mission, Mathews concludes that “they could be simultaneously symbols of racial independence as well as victims of white supremacy.”

As “oppositional spaces,” these schools gave their communities access to the ground floor of the civil rights movement, and the author highlights their connections to some of the more famous activists such as John R. Lewis, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, and Gordon P. Hancock. Ultimately, Mathews’s book is a fascinating and complex account that uses the history of these three institutions to illuminate the origins of the long struggle for civil rights.

© 2025 University of Tennessee Press (E-bog): 9781621909262

Release date

E-bog: 3. februar 2025

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Diary of Agony and Hope: Waves of Folk Sayings in the Ferguson Movement E. Hammond Oglesby
  2. Safeguarding the Stranger: An Abrahamic Theology and Ethic of Protective Hospitality Jayme R. Reaves
  3. The Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law (Before Judge Drummond, Of The United States District Court, Chicago, Illinois): Before Judge Drummond, Of The United States District Court, Chicago, Illinois John Hossack
  4. The Voices From The Past – Hundreds of Testimonies by Former Slaves In One Volume Work Projects Administration
  5. The Black Phalanx: African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War Joseph T. Wilson
  6. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 Fanny Kemble
  7. Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865: A Unique Perspective on Confederate Life in the Civil War South Mary Ann Harris Gay
  8. The American Prejudice Against Color: An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar William G. active 1849-1853 Allen
  9. Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement Janet Dewart Bell
  10. We Be Big: The Mostly True Story of How Two Kids from Calhoun County, Alabama, Became Rick & Bubba Don Keith
  11. Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where Cultures Converged Alan Govenar
  12. The Conquest of a Continent: Expansion of Races in America Madison Grant
  13. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges: Unveiling the Legacy of London's Corporate Governance William Ferneley Allen
  14. London: City of the Dead Alan Brooke
  15. A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians: Exploring the Legacy of Six-Nation Indigenous Peoples J. B. Mackenzie
  16. The Story of Tonty: Exploring the French Frontier: A Tale of Adventure and Intrigue in Colonial America Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  17. Foundations of Reading, Writing, and Proving Manish Joshi
  18. Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent Robert A. Beauregard
  19. A Late Encounter with the Civil War Michael Kreyling
  20. Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century: Unveiling the Forgotten Heroines of the Seventeenth Century Alice Clark
  21. Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain: Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time William Andrews
  22. Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class Jan Whitaker
  23. Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois & History of the Tuscarora Indians Elias Johnson
  24. Highland Superstitions and Seers (Folklore History Series) James Cromb
  25. History of Australian Bushranging Charles White
  26. The Hidden Pope: The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship That Changed the Relationship Between Catholics and Jews Darcy O'Brien
  27. On the Shores of the Great Sea M.B. Synge
  28. My Cave Life in Vicksburg, with Letters of Trial and Travel Mary Ann Webster Loughborough
  29. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan: A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author Andrew J. Blackbird
  30. From Boiled Beef to Chicken Tikka: 500 Years of Feeding the British Army Janet Macdonald
  31. History of Australian Bushranging Charles White
  32. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present: Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance P. C. Remondino
  33. Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West John H. Mrs. Kinzie
  34. Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial Gary Alan
  35. Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year Jimmy Breslin
  36. 31 Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Fighting in the Far West William F. Drannan
  37. The Chronicles of the Old West - 4 Historical Books Exploring the Wild Past of the American West Emerson Hough
  38. The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot James H. Coyne
  39. Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; Its Literary History, Indian Tribes and Antiquities: Exploring Florida's Cultural Legacy and Indigenous Peoples Daniel G. Brinton
  40. The BEF Campaign on the Aisne 1914: 'In the Company of Ghosts' Jerry Murland
  41. History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity: Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles W. T. Simpson
  42. The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs: A Journey through London's Vibrant Fairground History Thomas Frost
  43. Cotton: From Southern Fields to the Memphis Market William Bearden
  44. Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition Ralph Whitney Mathisen
  45. The American Indians in the Civil War Annie Heloise Abel

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet