From Every Mountainside

R. Drew Smith is Scholar-in-Residence in the Leadership Center at Morehouse College. He is the editor of several books, including Freedom's Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa and Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America.

"This volume collects essays stretching across time and geographic space to provide a historically and sociologically rich look at historic and contemporary black churches and activism on issues ranging from traditional civil rights concerns to immigrant and gay rights, health care policy, voter suppression, HIV/AIDS, and educational policy … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society … [the] contributors shed light on distinctive regional dimensions of African American political and church life that bear in significant ways on both the mobilization of civil rights activism and the achievement of its goals." — Sir Read a Lot

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by R. Drew SmithMid-Twentieth Century Church Activism Beyond the South1. Black Church Divisions and Civil Rights Activism in ChicagoJames R. Ralph, Jr., Middlebury College2. The NAACP, Black Churches, and the Struggle for Black Empowerment in New Haven, 1955–1961Yohuru R. Williams, Fairfield University3. Ruby Hurley, U.S. Protestantism, and NAACP Student Work, 1940–1950Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College4. Black Churches, Peoples Temple, and Civil Rights Politics in San FranciscoJames Lance Taylor, University of San Francisco5. Philadelphia’s Opportunities Industrialization Center and the Black Church’s Quest for Economic JusticeJuan M. Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt Divinity School6. The Black Panther Party and the Black ChurchSteve McCutcheon, Carl B. Munck Elementary SchoolJudson L. Jeffries, Ohio State UniversityOmari L. Dyson, South Carolina State University7. Racial Discrimination and the Radical Politics of New York Clergyman, Milton A. GalamisonClarence Taylor, Baruch CollegePublic Sphere Capital and Contemporary Rights Expectations 8. Black Clergy, Educational Fairness, and Pursuit of the Common GoodR. Drew Smith, Morehouse College9. Black Churches and Black Voter Suppression in Florida and OhioMaurice Mangum, Texas Southern University10. African American Churches, Health Care, and the Health Reform DebateLarry G. Murphy, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary11. The Obama Administration, Faith-Based Policy, and Religious Groups’ Hiring RightsDavid K. Ryden, Hope CollegePrevailing Boundaries of Social Difference 12. Black Church Burnings in the 1990s and Faith-Based ResponsesKatie Day, Luthern Theological Seminary13. Civil Rights Rhetoric in Media Coverage of Marriage Equality Debates: Massachusetts and GeorgiaTraci C. West, Drew University14. The Feminization of HIV/AIDS and Passivity of Black Church Responses in Denver and BeyondCarroll Watkins Ali, Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance 15. Black Churches and African American Opinion on Immigration PolicyR. Khari Brown, Wayne State University16. Religious Others and a New Blackness in Post 9/11 CaliforniaJames Lance Taylor, University of San FranciscoContributorsIndex