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The Unsung Heart of Black America; A Middle-Class Church at Midcentury
de Irvin, Dona L
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good. Removed from shrink-wrap for cataloguing/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 082620841X
- ISBN 13
- 9780826208415
- Librería
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good. Removed from shrink-wrap for cataloguing/Very good. Jonathan Eubanks (Reunion photographs and Author p. ix, [3], 241, [3] pages. Top edge somewhat 'dinged'. No impact to text. Dona L. Irvin (1917-2009), was an African-American author. She was able to seize opportunities opening up during the civil rights era and began a career in education administration: first at the University of California, Berkeley, then in the Oakland Unified School District, from which she retired in 1982. In retirement she began a new and rewarding career as an author. Her first book, The Unsung Heart of Black America: A Middle-Class Church at Midcentury, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1992. It chronicled the creation and growth of Downs Memorial Methodist Church, which the Irvin family attended in the 1950s and early 1960s and where they found so many of their cherished, lifelong friends. Most people are familiar with such African-Americans as Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, or Martin Luther King, Jr., at one end of the spectrum, and with sharecroppers, lynch victims, or underprivileged families at the other. Somewhere between the two is the unsung middle class that quietly makes a difference in the quality of life for individual communities and for all black Americans. In The Unsung Heart of Black America, Dona Irvin gives voice to this uncelebrated multitude with biographical glimpses into the lives of forty members of the Downs Memorial United Methodist Church in the post-World War II San Francisco Bay area. Strengthened by the bond of the church, these people struggled to make their world a better place through political campaigns, a tutorial program for public school students, and a counseling program wherein professionals offered service to less-fortunate members of the community. The forty people profiled here show a strongly developed sense of mission and a willingness to implement change. The group includes the first black mayor of a California city, the head of a social services department in a California county, an Alameda County Superior Court judge, and a woman who was superintendent of public schools in Oakland and Chicago. The experiences of the Downs community provide emphatic evidence of the importance of the black church in our society. The Unsung Heart of Black America shows the ambitions, successes, and frustrations of the forty members of Downs church as they strived to make a substantial contribution to the quality of American life.
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- Librería
- Ground Zero Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 87841
- Título
- The Unsung Heart of Black America; A Middle-Class Church at Midcentury
- Autor
- Irvin, Dona L
- Ilustrador
- Jonathan Eubanks (Reunion photographs and Author p
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good. Removed from shrink-wrap for cataloguing
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Printing [Stated]
- ISBN 10
- 082620841X
- ISBN 13
- 9780826208415
- Editorial
- University of Missouri Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Columbia, MO
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Palabras clave
- Downs Church, East Bay, Community, Religion, African-American, Oakland, California, Bishop Roy Nichols, Downs Memorial United Methodist, Humanitarian, Congregation, Public Service, Education
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