A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2

Download or read book A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2 written by David Henry Bradley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.