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Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression

Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940
By:Robert Gregg
Publisher:Temple University Press
Print ISBN:9781566396646
eText ISBN:9781439906118
Edition:0
Copyright:1998
Format:Page Fidelity

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While assuming the importance of  churches within black communities, social historians generally have not studied them directly or have treated the black denominations as a single unit. Gregg focuses on the African Methodist churches and churchgoers in Philadelphia during the Great Migration and the concurrent rise of black ghettoes in the city to show the variety and richness of African American culture at that time.