African American Preachers and Politics by Dennis C Dickerson
During most of the twentieth century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr. (1868-1931) and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. (1908-1981), father and son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African American religious leaders pursued. Their sacred and secular concerns merged in efforts to improve the spiritual and material well-being of their congregations. But as political alliances became necessary, both wrestled with moral consequences and varied outcomes. Both were ministers to Chicago's largest African Methodist Episcopal Church congregations- the senior Carey as a bishop, and the junior Carey as a pastor and an attorney.Bishop Carey associated himself mainly with Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson, a Republican, whom he presented to black voters as an ally. When the mayor appointed Carey to the city's civil service commission, Carey helped in the hiring and promotion of local blacks. But alleged impropriety for selling jobs marred the bishop's tenure. The junior Carey, also a Republican and an alderman, became head of the panel on anti-discrimination in employment for the Eisenhower administration. He aided innumerable black federal employees. Although an influential benefactor of CORE and SCLC, Carey associated with notorious FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and compromised support for Martin Luther King, Jr. Both Careys believed politics offered clergy the best opportunities to empower the black population. Their imperfect alliances and mixed results, however, proved the complexity of combining the realms of spirituality and politics.-
Pieces of Freedom
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The Nine O'Clock Whistle
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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
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African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
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A Songbook of Slavery and Emancipation
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Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years
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Activism in the Name of God
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The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
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Perspectives on Percival Everett
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City Son
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Black Saturation
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Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
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Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
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Can’t Stand Still
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Black and More Than Black
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Labor Pains
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Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
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Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
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All Stories Are True
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The Postwar African American Novel
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In the Lion's Mouth
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Borders of Equality
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Fame to Infamy
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This Woman's Work
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Shadowing Ralph Ellison
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The African American Sonnet
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African American Haiku
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Rediscovering Frank Yerby
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Making a Way Out of No Way
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Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
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Unexpected Places
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The Souls of White Folk
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The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello
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Raised Up Down Yonder
Dennis C. Dickerson is James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His previous books are Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980 and Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781617031939 |
| ISBN 10 | 1617031933 |
| Title | African American Preachers and Politics |
| Author | Dennis C Dickerson |
| Series | Margaret Walker Alexander Series In African American Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
| Year published | 2011-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
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