Little Zion: A Church Baptized by FireUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 - 266 Seiten The arson attacks in 2006 on a number of small Baptist churches in rural Alabama recall the rash of burnings at predominantly black houses of worship that damaged or destroyed dozens of southern churches in the mid-1990s. One of the churches struck by pro |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Little Zion in the Community | 31 |
Recollections by Sister Rosie Lee Hendricks | 89 |
Little Zion in Church | 105 |
Little Zion All in the Soul | 161 |
Recollections by Rev Michael Barton | 207 |
EPILOGUE | 227 |
APPENDIX | 231 |
NOTES | 233 |
WORKS CITED | 251 |
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