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The hand of God in the African-American history

Hypothesis: The Black Church has long been a bulwark in the black community from slavery

times to ours days.

The Black Church has

historically been a source

of hope and strength for

the African American

community. Its has

contributed immensely to

eradicate social issues like

racisms and civil rights.

Slaves and free African

Americans formed theirown congregations as early

as the mid- to late 18th

century. Evangelical Baptist

and Methodist

preachers

traveled

throughout the

South in the Great

Awakening. They

appealed directly to slaves,

and numerous people

converted. After

emancipation fullfledged

denominations emerged

what we today call the

black church.

Currently, this community

is a fundamental backbone

that looks after the

interests of black people in

subjects such as politics

and morality.

The great gift, indeed

genius of African-American

religious sensibility is its

drive to forge a common

identity. Black slaves from

different parts of Africa-

mainly from Gambia- were

transported to America by

means of the middle

passage across

the Atlantic; just

like the

bestseller roots

by Alex Haley

show as slaves

they enduredmassive

oppression and deprivation.

African-American

religious belief and

practice afforded

solace and the

intellectual

foundation for a

successful means of solving

deep-seated conflict: the

techniques of civil

disobedience and

nonviolence mainly in time

of slavery. The black church

also supplied black political

activists with a powerful

philosophy: To

focus upon an

ultimate solution

for all rather than

solutions for a

select few. In thisway the civil

rights movement was born.

This Movement fought by a

better future not just for

the black people, but also

for the nation and the

entire world.

In the history of the

humanity segregations

was inevitable and EE.UU

was no exception but in

this situation the

communal spirituality of

the black church helpedspawn a civil

consciousness.

The black church gave

many powerful voices in

the struggle for civil rights.

The most famous character

is the Reverend Martin

Luther King JR. who gave

his life for the cause. Kings

role as chief articulator of

civil rights reflects the

direct relationship

between African-American

religious and the struggle

for racial and social justice

in the United Stated. The

black church

gave other

names like:

Rosa Parks

or Jesse

Jackson, andmore, the

spiritual influence of the

color people spread

beyond the nations shores

one example of this is the

name of Nelson Mandela in

the struggle for abolishes

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the Apartheid in South

Africa.

Todays African-American

communal spirituality is as

strong and engaged as ever.Black churches work to

craft responses to

contemporary

challenges such

as the spread of

HIV/AIDS, the

need to

ameliorate poverty, and

the disproportionate

recidivism of imprisoned

African-Americans. In sum

the Black Church helped

African-Americans survivethe harshest forms of

oppression

and

developed a

revolutionar

y appeal of

universal

that has its origin in time of

slavery and civil rights until

today. Black People was

able to find strength, peace

and hope to change the

world and the black churchwas the light in the

darkness of the injustice

and cruelty.

By Gladys Cabezas.

Bibliography

Black church culture and community action. Sandra L. Purdue University. December 2005 The Bureau of International Information Programs, Ed. (2008) Free at last: The U.S Civil

rights movement.

Black Church. Ed March 6th2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_church