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Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement
William Monroe Trotter’s Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
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2023
Summary
Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement offers a challenging new formulation of African American religious culture by asserting that African American Christianity produced a militant millennialist movement that invoked the apocalypse, the kingdom of God, and the end of the world to compel Black people to oppose racial injustice in the early twentieth century. In this account of the Black civil rights movement in Boston in the early twentieth century, Aaron Pride argues that the apocalyptic rhetoric and millennial imagery disseminated from the Boston Guardian by William Monroe Trotter cast Booker T. Washington and other opponents of Black protest as false prophets, biblical villains, and harbingers of the end times. By placing Black Christianity at the center of Black civil rights activism in the early twentieth century, this book provides a seminal interpretation of the emancipatory capacity of religion as cultural and intellectual force in social and political movements. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural history, Black studies, and the history of religion.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-66694-361-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-4362-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
214
Product Type
Monograph
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 1: The Apocalypse Arrives in Black Boston: Booker T. Washington’s Rise in Jim Crow America No access Pages 15 - 28
Chapter 2: The Ecclesiastical Tyranny of Mammon: The Dystopia of the Black Ministry and the Tuskegee Machine No access Pages 29 - 50
Chapter 3: The Modern Moses of Mammon in the Black Apocalyptic Imagination No access Pages 51 - 76
Chapter 4: Converting to the Cause: The Boston Riot and the Niagara Movement No access Pages 77 - 100
Chapter 5: Prophetesses of the End Times: Black Women and the Iconography of the Apocalypse No access Pages 101 - 112
Chapter 6: At Freedom’s End: World War I and the Quest for World Democracy No access Pages 113 - 126
Chapter 7: We Shall Never Bend the Knee to Baal: The Reckoning with White Christendom No access Pages 127 - 154
Chapter 8: The Handwriting on the Wall: The Wrath of the Hand of God No access Pages 155 - 182
