"Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement offers a challenging new formulation of African American religious culture by asserting that African American Christianity produced a militant millennialist movement that invoked the apocalypse, the kingdom of God, and the end of the world to compel Black people to oppose racial injustice in the early twentieth century. In this account of the Black civil rights movement in Boston in the early twentieth century, Aaron Pride argues that the apocalyptic rhetoric and millennial imagery disseminated from the Boston Guardian by William Monroe Trotter cast Booker T. Washington and other opponents of Black protest as false prophets, biblical villains, and harbingers of the end times. By placing Black Christianity at the center of Black civil rights activism in the early twentieth century, this book provides a seminal interpretation of the emancipatory capacity of religion as cultural and intellectual force in social and political movements. This book will be of interest to scholars of cultural history, Black studies, and the history of religion."--
"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"--
Alternative title
William Monroe Trotter's civil rights activism in early twentieth-century Boston
The apocalypse arrives in Black Boston : Booker T. Washington's rise in Jim Crow America -- The ecclesiastical tyranny of Mammon : The dystopia of the Black ministry and the Tuskegee machine -- The modern Moses of Mammon in the black apocalyptic imagination -- Converting to the cause : the Boston Riot and the Niagara Movement -- Prophetesses of the end times : Black women and the iconography of the apocalypse -- At freedom's end : World War I and the quest for world democracy -- We shall never bend the knee to Baal : the reckoning with White Christendom -- The handwriting on the wall : the wrath of the hand of God -- Conclusion : Thy kingdom come.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
Pride, Aaron N., 1983- author.
Title
Apocalyptic rhetoric and the Black protest movement : William Monroe Trotter's civil rights activism in early twentieth-century Boston / Aaron Pride.
Publisher
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]
Type of content
text
Type of medium
unmediated
Type of carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:
Online version: Pride, Aaron. Apocalyptic rhetoric and the Black protest movement Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] 9781666943627 (DLC) 2023045169