Liberating Black Church History: Making It Plain

This book lays out how the lessons of the dark pastshaped apeople s religious quest for liberation and their long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. The bookbears witness to the story of a liberating faith in action in three moves.

First, the book narrates the transformation of Black faith and culture in the North American context from enslavement to emancipation.

Second, itdiscussesBlack people s confrontation with the crisis of segregation and how it led to the culmination of the civil rights struggle in the United States and beyond.

Finally, the author focuses on the contemporary developments in the religious experience of African Americans as they moved from the Black Power era to the Age of Obama. "