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Witnessing and Testifying

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Witnessing and Testifying

After a chapter exploring black women's religious context and presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum and post-Reconstruction eras, Ross looks at seven civil rights activists who continue this tradition. They are Ella Josephine Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Way DeLee, Clara Muhammad, Diane Nash, and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson.

In a fascinating narrative style that draws on biography, social history, and original archival research, Ross shows how their moral formation and work reflect both womanist consciousness and practices of witness and testimony, both emergent from the black religious context.

Ross' major work is engrossing history and moving ethical challenge. Examining black women's civil rights activism as religiously impelled moral practices brings a new insight to work on the movement and lifts up a paradigm for engagement in the mountainous challenges of contemporary social life.

Country	USA
Author	Rosetta E. Ross
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781451417869
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Fortress Press
Manufacturer	Fortress Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	316
PublicationDate	2003-01-01
Publisher	Fortress Press
ReleaseDate	2002-12-31
Studio	Fortress Press

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