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A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Part 2
In this second volume, David H. Bradley picks up the story of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion in 1873. From there he follows A. M. E. Zion’s growth through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, showing the denomination’s special capacity for empowering lay people to be crucial to African American organization in the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout, Bradley explores the dynamics of organizational institutionalization in the midst of new growth and transformation through the Great Migration and the flowering of A. M. E. Zion churches in new African American communities on the West Coast.
Telling a Neglected Story
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a major, historic Black Christian denomination which has long been ignored as a subject of serious academic reflection, especially of an historic nature. This was partly due to the lack of denominational archives, and the sense that historical inventory and archival storage could be a financial drain to the AME Zion Church. This book will take three AME Zion icons who are still revered and frequently referenced in present-day church dialogue and examine their lives, their leadership styles and legacy, their indelible imprint on the Civil Rights movement and the fabric of American society. The lives, leadership and legacy of three of the Bishops ...
