In Darkness with God
The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson | ISBN: | 9781612771847 |
| Publisher: | The Kent State University Press | Publication: | November 10, 1994 |
| Imprint: | The Kent State University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson |
| ISBN: | 9781612771847 |
| Publisher: | The Kent State University Press |
| Publication: | November 10, 1994 |
| Imprint: | The Kent State University Press |
| Language: | English |
Joseph Gomez (1890–1979) was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil right pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. His daughter, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, has drawn on letters, journals, and church records to write his biography and a history of the age in which he lived.
Gomez-Jefferson captures the growing concern of the Black middle-class with civil rights and its persistent attempts to confront problems with tactics less confrontational than those of the sixties and seventies.
More than a biography, In Darkness with God is a history of Black life during the early part of the century and a chronicle of the political and religious struggles of the first autonomous Black church in the United States.
Joseph Gomez (1890–1979) was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil right pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. His daughter, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, has drawn on letters, journals, and church records to write his biography and a history of the age in which he lived.
Gomez-Jefferson captures the growing concern of the Black middle-class with civil rights and its persistent attempts to confront problems with tactics less confrontational than those of the sixties and seventies.
More than a biography, In Darkness with God is a history of Black life during the early part of the century and a chronicle of the political and religious struggles of the first autonomous Black church in the United States.
