A History of African American Christianity, week 7

To the Present

1. The Civil Rights Movement

   1. Martin Luther King, Jr.

   2. Support on the ground

   3. King James Version appropriated deeply

   4. Development of a formal Black Theology, esp. James H Cone

   5. Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama

2. Black “Evangelicals”

   1. Early: E. V. Hill, Melvin Banks, William and Ruth Bentley

   2. Recent: Thabiti Anyabwile, Jemar Tisby, Esau McCauley

3. Points to Ponder

   1. Differences from white Protestant history

   2. Ahead?