James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists /
In James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists, R. Clifford Jones tells the story of this important black religious figure and his attempt to bring about self-determination for twentieth-century blacks in New York City. Humphrey was a Baptist minister who joined the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA)...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2006.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | In James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists, R. Clifford Jones tells the story of this important black religious figure and his attempt to bring about self-determination for twentieth-century blacks in New York City. Humphrey was a Baptist minister who joined the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church shortly after arriving in New York City from Jamaica at the turn of the twentieth century. A leader of uncommon competency and charisma, Humphrey functioned as an SDA minister in Harlem during the time the community became the black capital of the United States. Though he led his congregatio. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (v, 250 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604731507 1604731508 |
