Witnessing and Testifying (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780800636036)

After a chapter exploring black women's religious context and presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum and post-Reconstruction eras, Ross looks at seven civil rights activists who continue this tradition. They are Ella Josephine Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Way DeLee, Clara Muhammad, Diane Nash, and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. In a fascinating narrative style that draws on biography, social history, and original archival research, Ross shows how their moral formation and work reflect both womanist consciousness and practices of witness and testimony, both emergent from the black religious context. Ross' major work is engrossing history and moving ethical challenge. Examining black women's civil rights activism as religiously impelled moral practices brings a new insight to work on the movement and lifts up a paradigm for engagement in the mountainous challenges of contemporary social life.

Author: Rosetta E. Ross
ISBN-10: 0800636031
ISBN-13: 9780800636036
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.97w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2002 pg. 115
Booklist 12/15/2002 pg. 744
PW Notes and Reprints 01/13/2003 pg. 57
Library Journal 01/01/2003 pg. 120
Ebony 03/01/2003 pg. 25
Publishers Weekly 01/13/2003