Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.
Contents
Working for survival and liberation: racial uplift and social responsibility -- Womanist theology and "keeping on down the freedom road" -- Witnessing and testifying -- Sojourner Truth: a black religious woman's antebellum activism -- Nannie Helen Burroughs: a turn-of-the-century activist -- Ella Baker: passing on values of attending to the "least" -- Septima Poinsette Clark: education for citizenship -- Empowering local people as a moral value -- Fannie Lou Hamer: realizing promises of religious faith and hope -- Victoria Way DeLee: community activism as religious practice -- Self-realization as moral practice from a grassroots perspective -- Clara Muhammad and the nation of Islam -- Religious and moral influences in Muhammad's early life -- Muhammad's role in the development of the nation of Islam -- Muhammad's religious and moral perspectives -- Diane Nash: passionate agitation for positive quality of life -- Ruby Doris Smith Robinson: building community and sustaining community protest -- Nash and Robinson: young visionary activists -- Testifying and witnessing -- Values and virtues: models and practices in black religious women's activism -- Black religious women and public life.
