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- Title
"In the Name of Our God and Our Baptist Heritage".
- Authors
Leonard, Bill J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of the Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC), established in November 1961 in Cincinnati, Ohio as a Baptist sect focused on political and social activism on behalf of African American civil rights. An overview of the historiography of the PNBC is presented. Some of the topics considered include denominationalism in American Protestant churches; African American churches; and Baptist clergy including National Baptist Convention President Joseph H. Jackson, Baptist leader Gardner C. Taylor, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BAPTISTS; PROTESTANT churches &; state; CHRISTIAN sects; PROTESTANT churches; AMERICAN civil rights movement; AFRICAN American history; CIVIL rights; HISTORY of the church in the United States; HISTORY; 20TH century United States history; RELIGION
- Publication
Baptist History & Heritage, 2011, Vol 46, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0005-5719
- Publication type
Article