Download or read book Mourner s Bench written by Sanderia Faye and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas, the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourner’s bench come revival, waiting for her sign, and then testifying in front of the whole church. But first, Sarah would need to navigate the growing tensions of small-town Arkansas in the 1960s. Both smarter and more serious than her years (a “fifty-year-old mind in an eight-year-old body,” according to Esther), Sarah was torn between the traditions, religion, and work ethic of her community and the progressive civil rights and feminist politics of her mother, who had recently returned from art school in Chicago. When organizers from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) came to town just as the revival was beginning, Sarah couldn’t help but be caught up in the turmoil. Most folks just wanted to keep the peace, and Reverend Jefferson called the SNCC organizers “the evil among us.” But her mother, along with local civil rights activist Carrie Dilworth, the SNCC organizers, Daisy Bates, attorney John Walker, and indeed most of the country, seemed determined to push Maeby toward integration. With characters as vibrant and evocative as their setting, Mourner’s Bench is the story of a young girl coming to terms with religion, racism, and feminism while also navigating the terrain of early adolescence and trying to settle into her place in her family and community.
Download or read book Mourner s Bench written by Sanderia Faye and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas, the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourner’s bench come revival, waiting for her sign, and then testifying in front of the whole church. But first, Sarah would need to navigate the growing tensions of small-town Arkansas in the 1960s. Both smarter and more serious than her years (a “fifty-year-old mind in an eight-year-old body,” according to Esther), Sarah was torn between the traditions, religion, and work ethic of her community and the progressive civil rights and feminist politics of her mother, who had recently returned from art school in Chicago. When organizers from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) came to town just as the revival was beginning, Sarah couldn’t help but be caught up in the turmoil. Most folks just wanted to keep the peace, and Reverend Jefferson called the SNCC organizers “the evil among us.” But her mother, along with local civil rights activist Carrie Dilworth, the SNCC organizers, Daisy Bates, attorney John Walker, and indeed most of the country, seemed determined to push Maeby toward integration. With characters as vibrant and evocative as their setting, Mourner’s Bench is the story of a young girl coming to terms with religion, racism, and feminism while also navigating the terrain of early adolescence and trying to settle into her place in her family and community.
Download or read book Crawling Around the Mourners Bench written by Darryl Goodner and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crawling Around the Mourners Bench is a compilation of poems, entailing the different stages of one Darryl Goodner. There was a time when I was at my lowest, as detailed by the poetry entitled "Suicide". I have endeavored to take the reader on a journey with me, through my ups and downs. All the way to where I 'welcome Freedom'.
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Download or read book The Work of Dance written by Mark Franko and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the complex relationship between dance, work and labor in the 1930s. In this insightful new book, Mark Franko explores the many genres of theatrical dancing during the radical decade of the 1930s and their relationship to labor movements, including Fordist and unionist organizational structures, the administrative structures of the Federal Dance and Theatre Project, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and the Communist Party. Franko shows how the structures of labor organization were reproduced and acted out — but also profoundly reasoned through in corporeal terms — by choreography and performance of the proletarian mass dance, the chorus line of the Ziegfeld Follies and the reflexive backstage musical film, Martha Graham's modern dance, the revolutionary dance movement of the proletarian avant-garde, African-American "ethnic" opera-ballet, and Lincoln Kirstein's "American" ballet. The contributions of many important personalities of American theatrical, visual and literary culture are included in this study. Franko's focus extends from the direct impact of performances on audiences to the reviewing, reporting and photography of print journalism.
Download or read book Joy Unspeakable written by Barbara A. Holmes and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. This mystical aspect of the black church is deeply implicated in the well-being of African American people but is not the focus of their intentional reflection. Moreover, its traditions are deeply ensconced within the historical memory of the wider society and can be found in Coltrane's riffs, Malcolm's exhortations, the social activism of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. The research in this book-through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices. A groundbreaking work in its original edition, Joy Unspeakable now appears in a new, revised edition to address the effects of this contemplative tradition on activism and politics and to speak to a new generation of readers and scholars.
Download or read book The Mourner s Bench written by R. Weiser and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book As I Remember written by Lynn McKinney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I Remember is a personal treasure for me and it can be for you too. You are given the secret to fighting the detrimental effects of Alzheimers disease. The secret is to remember. Remember everything about your loved one that will help you to recall the days before Alzheimers. As I remember, I challenge you to remember. I left you space at the end of my journal to record the special moments that you will remember. As you remember and are reading back over what you wrote, you will discover that you have created your own treasure.
Download or read book Singing in a Strange Land written by Nick Salvatore and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prizewinning historian pens this biography of C.L. Franklin, the greatest African-American preacher of his generation, father of Aretha, and civil rights pioneer.
Download or read book The Gift written by Mitchell Spears and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwarming memoir, authors and brothers Mitchell Spears, Jr. and Bobby Earl Spears offer a loving tribute to their parents. The brothers vividly depict how the "perfect love" given to them by their parents enabled them to overcome racial injustice and Jim Crow laws and develop into the wholesome, responsible, and successful men they are today.
Download or read book Jewels from E M Bounds written by E. M. Bounds and published by Bridge Logos Foundation. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. M. Bounds stated, “Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.” Based on the uncompromising, simple foundations of Scripture, E. M. Bounds left a legacy of written jewels on The Mission of the Church, Our Spiritual Walk, and Leadership, God's Way. He used terms such as: repentant, redeemed, righteous, self-denying, disciplined, consecrated, prayerful, evangelistic, holy, joyful, lovers of God, Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit, ageless descriptions of the man, woman, and child of God. These faith-building, Spirit-inspired, never-before-published writings are now gathered together in one powerful volume in the Pure Gold Classics series.
Download or read book The Effective Invitation written by R. Alan Streett and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Revised and expanded; 2nd edition) A step-by-step guide for pastors to prepare and present invitations to accept Christ. "There is no preacher on the earth but will be blessed by these pages." --W. A. Criswell
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Download or read book William Terry Couch and the Politics of Academic Publishing written by Orvin Lee Shiflett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Terry Couch (1901-1988) began his four-decade publishing career building the University of North Carolina Press into one of the nation's leading university presses. His editorial attacks on the social ills of the South earned him a reputation as a southern liberal. By the 1940s, his disaffection with New Deal politics turned him toward the right, resulting in his 1950 firing as director of the University of Chicago Press. As a conservative, Couch sought books and articles that would sway general readers from what he saw as an intellectual torpor that accepted the growing role of government in American life. The liberals who controlled the presses found him dogmatic and irascible. When he tried to turn Collier's Encyclopedia into a journal of conservative opinion, he was fired as editor in chief in 1959. He ended his career as publisher for the libertarian William Volker Fund, which collapsed in the 1960s under charges of Nazism. Couch was committed to publishing as a social cause and strove to disturb American complacency. This is the first book-length biography of Couch--a publisher who brought academic scholarship to the reading public to effect social, political and economic change.
Download or read book Annotated Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All modern American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn," declared Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America. No other story so central to our American identity has been so loved and so reviled as Huck Finn's autobiography.
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