Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement - William Monroe Trotters Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth

In Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement, the author argues that the Black civil rights moment in early twentieth century Boston drew on radical millenarian beliefs and visions of Armageddon to mobilize African Americans to undertake political protest to resist racial oppression and violence.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Apocalypse arrives in Black Boston: Booker T. Washington's Rise in Jim Crow America
Chapter 2: The Ecclesiastical Tyranny of Mammon: The Dystopia of the Black Ministry and the Tuskegee Machine
Chapter 3: The Modern Moses of Mammon in the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
Chapter 4: Converting to the Cause: The Boston Riot and the Niagara Movement
Chapter 5: Prophetesses of the End Times: Black Women and the Iconography of the Apocalypse
Chapter 6: At Freedom's End: World War I and the Quest for World Democracy
Chapter 7: We Shall Never Bend the Knee to Baal: The Reckoning with White Christendom.
Chapter 8: The Handwriting on the Wall: The Wrath of the Hand of God
Conclusion: Thy Kingdom Come

About the author

Aaron Pride is assistant professor of Africana studies at Lafayette College.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Pride
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666943610
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-361-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; USA, Ethnic Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black