The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a religious revival in the mid to late eighteenth century that was a turning point for African American religion. During the 1730s in the western part ... they would be free or they would escape. Also many slaves continued to believe in their ancestral religions and were not attracted to Christianity. But with the Great Awakening in process, not only did African Americans became Christians, they also influenced white religion. Africans and Christians had similar beliefs. Africans believed in ancestral gods, nature gods ... , and an almighty creator...

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... provided a watered-down version that stayed true to the salvation message and passages encouraging the slave's docility, but avoided passages promoting freedom primarily found in the Old Testament. The Great Awakening of the 1740's proved to be an instrumental event of the new African-American spirituality with its focal point on a "personal relationship" with God and conversion of the masses, ... rather than the liturgical and theological focus prior to the awakening.3 This development enabled lay preachers with no theological background to attempt mass conversion using emotional strate...

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... fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will ... ...

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... or acts of desecration at African-American churches. For African-Americans and all Americans of good will, this wave of church burnings has prompted outrage and alarm. And it is awakening bitter memories of racist violence during the civil rights struggle - particularly the 1963 bombing of the Sixth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls. Appalling as ... ...

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... equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. [Applause] There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt ... ...

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... his novel, The Autobiography of An Ex - Colored Man . James Johnson life was a rare but not extraordinary situation of a black man growing up "passing" for white. However, he received his awakening when he found out his dual racial identity. At this moment in life, he might not have understood what his double - consciousness was, but was able to apply it during ... ...

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... support, he help to establish the UNAI in Jamaica, plus a branch in Harlem (1916). He claimed that thousands enrolled in the UNAI, boasting over 1100 branches in 40 plus countries, awakening the NAACP to the importance of the working class. In his newspaper the "Negro World" he publicised his "eight point program". His ideas were large and reflected his personality, he ... ...

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