Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter's Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
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.
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Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter's Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
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.
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Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter's Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston

Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter's Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston

by Aaron Pride
Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter's Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston
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Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter's Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston

Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter's Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Boston

by Aaron Pride

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666943627
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 12/06/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 228
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

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

Table 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
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