Black Churches During the Jim Crow Era Flashcards

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Who wrote “Effects of Urbanization”?

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Lacy KirkWilliams

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Who was Lacy KirkWilliams?

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A progressive clergyman of Olivet Baptist Church

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What was “Effects of Urbanization”?

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Essay published in The Chicago Sunday Tribune

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Who became President of the National Baptist Convention Inc. in 1922?

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Lacy KirkWilliams

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According to “Effects of Urbanization”, why did AA move to the cities?

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  • Desire for better environments & living conditions
  • Want justice & better police protection
  • Educational advantages
  • Wider industrial opportunities
  • Better wages
  • Better religious opportunities
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According to “Effects of Urbanization”, how much did both the Chicago negro population and Chicago negro church membership increase 1916-20?

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  • Chicago negro population: 145.5%

- Chicago negro church membership: 40%

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According to “Effects of Urbanization”, what is there too much of and too little of in the church?

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  • Neglect of proper church duty

- Too much focus on heaven

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In “Effects of Urbanization”, what 2 remedies are needed for the church problem?

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  1. Must focus more on the religious psychology of the newcomers
  2. Need a more comprehensive program (education etc.)
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Who gave the “Address on the Great Migration”?

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African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops

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In 1917, where did the AME Council of Bishops meet?

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Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio

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According to “Address on the Great Migration”, what time had come?

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The Day of Reckoning

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In “Address on the Great Migration”, what did the rural churches need to do?

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Need to find the cause of the unrest, and so the remedy

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In “Address on the Great Migration”, what did urban churches need to do?

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  1. Give friendship to those who arrive

2. Help migrants avoid the “haunts of vice”

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Who wrote “Things of the Spirit”?

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Carter Woodson

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Who was Carter Woodson?

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Founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915

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According to “Things of the Spirit”, what is the only institution that the race controls?

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The Negro Church

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In “Things of the Spirit”, what are 2 problems of Negro preachers?

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  1. Ill-educated

2. Don’t pay their debts

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According to “Things of the Spirit”, what is one of the key differences between the rural and urban churches?

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Urban church engaged in social action, the rural church focused on the spiritual

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In “Things of the Spirit”, why do revivals have to happen every summer?

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“Hell-scared” people do not keep their religion

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Who wrote “The Churches of Bronzeville”?

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St. Clair Drake & Horace R. Cayton

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What was “The Churches of Bronzeville”?

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  1. Initially a social survey of Chicago’s south side, financed by the Works Progress Administration, looking at juvenile delinquency
  2. Re-written as part of R.R. Wright’s “The definitive study of Negro urbanization”
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What other major study does “The Churches of Bronzville” corroborate?

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Gunnar Myrdal’s “An American Dilemma”

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According to “The Churches of Bronzville”, what does Bronzeville expect of its churches?

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For them to “advance the race”

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In “The Churches of Bronzeville”, why do the churches have large amounts of debt?

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They purchased the white churches/synagogues in the Black Belt as the white population moved out

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In “The Churches of Bronzeville”, what % of churches are “store front”?

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75%

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In “The Churches of Bronzeville”, what is the church NOT?

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The centre of community life, though it is important

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In “The Churches of Bronzeville”, what 3 reasons are given as to why the church still flourishes?

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  1. Collective ceremonies give rhythm
  2. Little theology
  3. People “feel at home”
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Who wrote “My Life and Work”?

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Alexander Walters

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In “My Life and Work”, who sold out the AA in 1876?

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The Republican Party

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In “My Life and Work”, what council is Alexander Walters made President of?

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National Afro-American Council

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According to “My Life and Work”, what were the objects of the National Afro-American Council?

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  • Lynchings
  • The Convict Lease System
  • The Separate Car Law
  • Labour Commission
  • AA representation at the Paris Exposition
  • Cuban immigration
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In “My Life and Work”, what will Christianity save?

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The black race (need to follow the lord and not back down)

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In “My Life and Work”, what does Alexander Walters compare to the sun?

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Education: you cannot have too much sun

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Who wrote “The Defects of the Negro Church”?

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Orishatukeh Faduma

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What was “The Defects of the Negro Church”?

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An essay published in the American Negro Academy Occasional Papers

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Who was Orishatukeh Faduma?

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  • Slave rescued by the British Navy
  • Graduated from University of London & Yale Divinity School
  • 1902: Naturalised US citizen
  • AME Minister & missionary
  • Only African to address the American Negro Academy
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In “The Defects of the Negro Church”, what are the 4 defects?

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  1. Tendency to lay stress on outwardness rather than inwardness
  2. Neglect of rural communities
  3. The Negro Ministry
  4. Emotionalism of the laity
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Who wrote “The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death”?

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Howard Thurman

39
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Who was Howard Thurman?

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AA author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader (influenced MLK)

40
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What did Howard Thurman co-found in 1944?

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The first interracial, interdenominational church in the USA

41
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According to “The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death”, what are spirituals a source of rich testimony for?

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Views of life and death

42
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In “The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death”, what 3 sources do spirituals get their material from?

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  1. The World of Nature
  2. Th stuff of experience
  3. The Bible
43
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In “The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death”, what was constant threat?

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Imminent death

44
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In “The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death”, the origin of what is never discussed?

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Individual life- taken as a given

45
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According to “The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death”, who is not mentioned?

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Slaveowner: could only expect evil of him

46
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In “The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death”, what is a literal place?

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Heaven

47
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Who wrote “The Negro’s Church” (1933)

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Benjamin Mays & Joseph Nicholson

48
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Who was Benjamin Mays?

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Baptist Minister, President of Morehouse College, advisor to Kennedy, Truman, Johnson and Carter, and mentor to MLK

49
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What was “The Negro’s Church” (1933)

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Sociological study of the black church in the 1930s

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According to “The Negro’s Church”, what was the early Negro Church to the slave?

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The only organised field to release suppressed emotions and develop leadership

51
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According to “The Negro’s Church”, what kind of black preachers did whites help?

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Those who preached about heaven, who told Negroes to be honest and obedient, and that by and by God would straighten things out

52
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According to “The Negro’s Church”, what are younger men in the priesthood better at?

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Better collegiate and theological training

53
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According to “The Negro’s Church”, what % or urban churches are in debt?

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70%

54
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In “The Negro’s Church”, what are the 5 epochs?

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  1. Slavery Epoch 1750-1859
  2. Civil War Epoch 1860-1865
  3. Post-Civil War Epoch 1866-1899
  4. New Century Epoch 1900-1914
  5. Migration Epoch 1915-1930
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According to “The Negro’s Church”, what is there a poor emphasis on in the Negro Ministry?

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Academic training: idea of being “called” to god

56
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According to “The Negro’s Church”, what is challenging the ministerial leadership?

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Leaders in other fields

57
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In “The Negro’s Church”, what are the 3 kinds of sermon?

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  1. Those that touch life situations
  2. Sermons that are doctrinal/ theological
  3. Those that are predominantly other-worldly
58
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Who wrote “The Power of the Negro Church”?

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James Weldon Johnson

59
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Who was the first AA executive secretary of the NAACP?

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James Weldon Johnson

60
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According to “The Power of the Negro Church”, why is the black church relatively more powerful than the white church?

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White people can be reached through other mediums

61
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According to “The Power of the Negro Church”, what should the black church be made into?

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An instrument for bettering the conditions of the race

62
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Who wrote “After Freedom”?

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Hortense Powdermaker

63
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What is “After Freedom”?

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An anthropological study of the interracial community of Indianola, Mississippi

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Who was Hortense Powdermaker?

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An anthropologist

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In “After Freedom”, what generally conforms to a set pattern?

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“Getting religion” at revivals (stereotyped phrases)

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In “After Freedom”, what is increasingly rare amongst the young?

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Experience of getting religion

67
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According to “After Freedom”, what influence is on the preacher?

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Attitude towards his own people still highly influenced by white masters

68
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In “After Freedom”, what group are prominent at revivals and in the churches?

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Women

69
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Who wrote “An American Dilemma”?

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Gunnar Myrdal

70
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What was “An American Dilemma”?

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A study of race relations funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Who was Gunnar Myrdal?

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Swedish Nobel-Laureate economist

72
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What was the view of “An American Dilemma”?

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Eventually democracy would triumph over racism

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According to “An American Dilemma”, what was the vicious cycle of racism?

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Whites oppressed Negroes, and then pointed to Negroes’ poor performance as reason for the oppression

74
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According to “An American Dilemma”, what was the solution for the American race problem?

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Cure whites of their prejudice or improve the circumstances of Negroes

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In “An American Dilemma”, what 3 organisations should be brought together for concerted action?

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The Negro school, church, and press

76
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According to “An American Dilemma”, what is the Negro church like?

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Lower class white Protestant Church with emotionalism

77
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In “An American Dilemma”, why does the Negro church have social functions?

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To “sell” itself to the public

78
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According to “An American Dilemma”, what it both a weakness and a strength of the Negro church?

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Its segregation

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In “An American Dilemma”, what are 4 weaknesses of the Negro Church?

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  1. Passivity in the field of power/race relations
  2. Frequent schisms
  3. Poverty: dependent on white benefactors
  4. Ministers coming from a “call” rather than eduction: retain emotionalism
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Who wrote “Black Pastures”?

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William Lloyd Imes

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Who was William Lloyd Imes?

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  • Pastor of the presbyterian St. James’ Church in Harlem

- 1942 elected to the board of Union Theological Seminary

82
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In “Black Pastures”, who was Benjamin Albert Imes?

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William Lloyd Imes’ father

83
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In “Black Pastures”, who was the “Black Puritan”?

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Francis James Grimke

84
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In “Black Pastures”, what did William Lloyd Imes describe Fisk University as?

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“A Black Educational Pasture”

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According to “Black Pastures”, what monopoly can’t the black race claim?

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A monopoly of the best part of religion

86
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What response to churches being too costly does Imes have in “Black Pastures”?

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That no one criticises costly secular organizations

87
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According to “Black Pastures”, leadership like whose is needed in 1935?

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Lincoln’s

88
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In “Black Pastures”, what does the modern world feel little need for?

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The other-worldly point of view

89
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According to “Black Pastures”, what does the world need more of?

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“Practical saints”

90
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In “Black Pastures”, why should preachers not “thrill”?

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Have to keep to the simplicity that is in Christ

91
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In “Black Pastures”, what war is the real war?

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The war against hatred, greed etc.

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According to “Black Pastures”, what has the Negro Church been in black history?

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The one steady and dependable force

93
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What argument is given in “Black Pastures” against war?

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Should we prove our superiority by our using of the same methods of oppression and evil that they use?