Discusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churches and religions.
Discusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churc...
"Bound for the Promised Land" is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon's religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic considerations. Drawing on a range of sources--interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and...
"Bound for the Promised Land" is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movemen...
