Using Reading and Study resources for Week 3, and the suggested sources below, assess how the Great Migration shaped African American churches, as millions of African Americans moved North and West out of the South, and how, in turn, these church communities influenced the culture and politics of bourgeoning urban communities.
Recommended sources include: (links are included in the Reading and Study Module 3 in Blackboard).
1.Carter Woodson, The History of the Negro Church, The Associated Publishers: Washington D.C., 1921. https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/woodson/woodson.html
Suggested reading includes Chapter XIV, “The Recent Growth of the Negro Church.”
2.African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=3007887&query=
Suggested reading includes the following excerpts from Chapter V, “From the Great Migration to World War II.” To access this, follow the link provided in blackboard, and then click on Chapter V in the table of contents.
Excerpts include:
38- “African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops: Address on the Great Migration”
39- “Letters on the Second Exodus: ‘Dear Mary’ and ‘My Dear Sister'”
40- “Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church”

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