In darkness with God : the life of Joseph Gomez, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church / Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomez-Jefferson, Annetta Louise, 1927-2009, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bishops--United States--Biography.

Bishops.

African Methodist Episcopal Church--Clergy--Biography.

African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Gomez, Joseph, 1890-1979.

Gomez, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Joseph Gomez (1890-1979) was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil right pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. His daughter, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, has drawn on letters, journals, and church records to write his biography and a history of the age in which he lived. Gomez-Jefferson captures the growing concern of the Black middle-class with civil rights and its persistent attempts to confront problems with tactics less confrontational than those of the sixties and seventies. More than a biography, In Darkness with God is a history of Black life during the early part of the century and a chronicle of the political and religious struggles of the first autonomous Black church in the United States.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612771847

161277184X

OCLC:

868286186