Jean ott aptly called these events “the white controversy over black empowerment.”16 in a denomination that was 99 percent white, what else could it be? it happened because of the bigotry and mistakes of earlier generations of religious ...
Pulpit Takeover at Cedar Lane On Sunday, May 4, 1969, James Forman interrupted the worship service at Riverside Church in New York City to deliver the Black Manifesto. On Wednesday, he called the Community Church of New York; ...
Focusing largely on two pioneering black ministers -- Egbert Ethelred Brown, founder of the first Unitarian church in Harlem, and Lewis A. McGee, founder of the Interracial Free Religious Fellowship in Chicago's black ghetto -- Black ...
Black Pioneers in a White Denomination