Andre E. Johnson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Woodson was not even the first person to collect oratory delivered by African Americans. In 1892, Anna Julia Cooper published a collection of her speeches titled, A Voice from the South: By A Black Woman from the South. https://t.co/p5RmHpsicp https://t.co/gqC55XQOcS

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Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again. https://t.co/1GzdFk5MFd

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And, of course, my own work on Bishop Turner in The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition. https://t.co/5a8ShmVDLg

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Winding down my 2022 and preparing for 2023. Scheduled for publication in 2023: BOOKS: The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, The Platform, and the Pulpit. https://t.co/bZmWMsj1aM

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For the dissertation, he proposes to examine the prophetic rhetoric of theologian James Cone by engaging Cone's first four books, "Black Theology Black Power,"(1969) "A Black Theology of Liberation," (1970) "The Spirituals and the Blues," (1972), and "God of the Oppressed" (1975)

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After Cooper’s collection, Black preachers started to collect texts of their sermons. James W. Hood, a bishop of the AMEZ church, published "The Negro in the Christian Pulpit” in 1884. https://t.co/DNCuAl0oSg https://t.co/oqWnDMXQcI

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Her book, coming out later this year, is "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (@IllinoisPress, 2022) https://t.co/ujwVJNzBtM https://t.co/ZmZhFVeBtB

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One of the first books that described religion, spirituality, and faith on the streets of Ferguson was @DrLeahGFrancis' "Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community." https://t.co/CgiD18Sabx

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Others collected speeches for publication as well. Victoria Earle Matthews selected and arranged speeches by Booker T. Washington in a book titled Black-Belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington in 1898 https://t.co/eLsKIgSSM2 https://t.co/SQ0pWAqObT

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Reflecting: In 2020, the pipeline continued to roll with 4 pubs. It first started with a book chapter in "Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story," edited by Susan O'Donovan and Beverly Bond (eds.) https://t.co/rHwDO6pvAV