JOURNEYS
1642-1776: from Africa to America
1776-1863: from Bondage to Holy War
1866-1945: from Emancipation to Jim Crow
1955-1967: from Civil Rights to Black Power
1967-TODAY: from Crisis, A Search for Meaning
TIMELINE
1642-1776: from Africa to America
1776-1863: from Bondage to Holy War
1866-1945: from Emancipation to Jim Crow
1955-1967: from Civil Rights to Black Power
1967-TODAY: from Crisis, A Search for Meaning
PEOPLE OF FAITH
Albert Cleage
James Cone
Warith Deen Mohammed
Thomas Dorsey
Frederick Douglass
Olaudah Equiano
Prathia Hall
Henry McNeal Turner
Daniel Payne
Howard Thurman
Sojourner Truth
Denmark Vesey
Cecil Williams
WITNESSES TO FAITH:
Nimat Ab-dus Samad
Ingrid Askew
Cornelia Bailey
Horace Clarence Boyer
Sister Clare Carter
Cain Hope Felder
Charles Sherrod
James Lawson
Lena McLin
Rachel Harding
W. W. Law
Abiodun Oyewole
Zohara Simmons
Cornel West
AUDIO/VIDEO CLIPS
W.W. Law
(the importance of Bishop Payne)
Cornel West
(the lure of Christianity for African Americans)
Reginald Hildebrand
(theology of black soldiers)
Audio clips of slave narratives
James Cone
(the church as an organizational tool for Southern emigrants)
Rev. Charles Sherrod
(transformative effect of music)
Rev. Prathia Hall
(Malcolm X visiting SNCC workers after Bloody Sunday)
James Lawson
(teaching the strategy of nonviolence)
Richard Brent Turner
(history of the Nation of Islam)
Horace Clarence Boyer
(role of the black church today)
Ni'mat Abdus Samad
(coming to Islam)
Cornel West
(critique of the modern church)
Abiodun Oyewole
(faith in revolution)
African burial ground in Manhattan
Horace Clarence Boyer
("Take My Hand, Precious Lord")
Cain Hope Felder
(Bishop Turner's vision of Africa)
Imam D. Mohammed
(fearing his father)
ABOUT THE SERIES
EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2
EPISODE 3
EPISODE 4
EPISODE 5
EPISODE 6
EPISODE 1 Transcript
EPISODE 2 Transcript
EPISODE 3 Transcript
EPISODE 4 Transcript
EPISODE 5 Transcript
EPISODE 6 Transcript
DISCUSSIONS
PRIVACY POLICY
SITE MAP
SITE CREDITS
PHOTO CREDITS
RESOURCES
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