Excerpts from The Ward AME Church Oral History
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African American Heritage Hymnal: 575 Hymns, Spirituals, and Gospel Songs $19.00 Eight years of inspired work by a committee of more than 30 musicians and pastors, all leaders in African American worship and gospel music, have resulted in this compendium representing the common repertoire of African American churches across the United States. For the first time in an African American hymnal, traditional hymns and songs are notated to reflect performance practices found in the … |
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The Black Church in the African American Experience $20.03 Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s.Drawing on interviews with more than 1,8… |
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Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers $14.00 An Interview with the Author on the History News NetworkA Founding Father with a Vision of Equality: Richard Newman’s op-ed in The Philadelphia InquirerAuthor Spotlight in The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle”Gold” Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography CategoryFreedom’s Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-America… |
