![]() ![]() In this book, his tender and magisterial reckoning with the meaning of the Black church in American history, Gates takes us from his own experience onto a journey across more than 400 years and spanning the entire country. ![]() Within those walls, voices were lifted up in song to call forth the best in each other, and to comfort each other when times were at their worst. The companion book to the upcoming PBS series.įor the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the church was his family and his community's true center of gravity. From the New York Times best-selling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress. ![]()
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