Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Religious Journey of A. Philip Randolph 1 One of the Sons of African Methodism 2 The Messenger: A Forum for Liberal Religion 3 The Brotherhood: Religion for the Working Class 4 The 1940s March on Washington Movement: Experiments in Prayer Protests, Liberation and Black Theology, and Gandhian Satyagraha 5 The Miracle of Montgomery Epilogue: The Old Gentleman Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

About the Author

Cynthia Taylor teaches American history and religion in the Humanities Department of Dominican University of California.

Reviews

"Finally we have a book that seriously examines the religious views of one of the most important figures in modern American history as well as the black freedom struggle." --Clarence Taylor, author of Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the Twenty-first Century