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This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience

by Juan Williams

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Faith, Black churches, and the road to civil rights

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Faith, Black churches, and the road to civil rights

Created as a companion to the PBS series, this book examines the place of religious belief and Black churches in African American communal life and in the U.S. Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Juan Williams brings together social history with accounts of political organizing, tent revivals, and religious leadership, tracing how faith communities became sites of endurance, collective action, and public witness. Archival and contemporary photographs, historical research, and present-day interviews broaden the book’s portrait of a religious tradition shaped alongside a continuing struggle for freedom and recognition.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in African American religious history
  • Those studying the U.S. Civil Rights movement and community organizing
  • PBS viewers seeking the companion volume to the series

Themes

African American religious experienceBlack churchesU.S. Civil Rights movementFaith and social changeCommunity leadership

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Book overview

A companion to the PBS series, This Far by Faith isthe story of how religious faith inspired the greatest social movementin American history -- the U.S. Civil Rights movement.

Hailed upon publication as a beautiful, seminal book on the role of the church in the African American community as well as on the social history of America, This Far by Faith reveals the deep religious conviction that empowered a people viewed as powerless to blaze a path to freedom and deliverance, to stand and be counted in this one nation under God. Here are the stories of politics, tent revivals, and the importance of black churches as touchstones for every step of the faith journey that became the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Using archival and contemporary photography, historical research, and modern-day interviews, This Far by Faith features messages from some of today's foremost religious leaders.

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