In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780873386074)

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.

Author: Gomez-Jefferson
ISBN-10: 0873386078
ISBN-13: 9780873386074
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/09/1998
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.34w x 1.44d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/16/1998 pg. 68
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2000 pg. 13 - Outstanding