Activism in the name of God: religion and Black feminist public intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the present by African American readings of Paul : reception, resistance, and transformation by Anchored in the current : discovering Howard Thurman as educator, activist, guide, and prophet by Azusa reimagined : a radical vision of religious and democratic belonging by 
The Black church : this is our story, this is our song by Black is a church : Christianity and the contours of African American life by 
Black LGBT Adults in the US: LGBT Well Being at the Intersection of Race (e-book) by Black liturgies : prayers, poems, and meditations for staying human by 
Black Samson : the untold story of an American icon by 
A Black Theology of Liberation by 
Black visions of the Holy Land : African American Christian engagement with Israel and Palestine by 
Crusade for Justice : the autobiography of Ida B. Wells (e-book) by 
Darkening Blackness : race, gender, class, and pessimism in 21st-century Black thought by 
Decolonizing existentialism and phenomenology: the liberation of philosophies of freedom and identity by Do black lives matter? : how Christian scriptures speak to Black empowerment by The education of Betsey Stockton : an odyssey of slavery and freedom by 
Fannie Lou Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology: Racial and Environmental Justice Concerns (e-book) by Finding God in all the Black places : sacred imaginings in Black popular culture by For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church - 40th Anniversary Edition by The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family by Have you got good religion? : Black women's faith, courage, and moral leadership in the Civil Rights Movement by How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams (e-book) by 
Indigeneity in African Religions : Oza worldviews, cosmologies and religious cultures (e-book) by Intergenerational catechesis : revitalizing faith through African-American storytelling by 
Interpreting 2 Peter Through African American Women's Moral Writings by Katie's canon : womanism and the soul of the black community (25th anniversary ed.) by 
Let the legends preach : sermons by living legends at the E.K. Bailey Preaching Conference by 
Liberation and the cosmos : conversations with the elders by 
Missiology reimagined : the missions theology of the nineteenth-century African American missionary by 
Notes of a native daughter : testifying in theological education by 
Of effacement : blackness and non-being by 
Open wounds : a story of racial tragedy, trauma, and redemption by Plenty good room : co-creating an economy of enough for all by 
Preaching Romans from here : diverse voices engage Paul's most famous letter by 
Race & restoration : Churches of Christ and the black freedom struggle by Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses (e-book) by 
Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America (e-book) by 
Reading while Black : African American biblical interpretation as an exercise in hope by She calls herself Betsey Stockton : the illustrated odyssey of a Princeton slave by Shoutin' in the fire : an American epistle by Stony the road we trod : African American biblical interpretation (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition) by 
Storied witness: the theology of Black women preachers in 19th-century America by 
Take back what the devil stole : an African American prophet's encounters in the spirit world by 
The Toni Morrison Book Club by True to our native land : an African American New Testament commentary, Second Edition by Womanish theology : discovering God through the lens of Black girlhood by 
The 1619 Project : a new American origin story by 
African American philosophers and philosophy: an introduction to the history, concepts, and contemporary issues by 
African American Religious Experiences: a case study of twentieth century trends and practices by 
AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church: making the wounded whole by 
Augustus Tolton: the church is the true liberator by 
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by 
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by 
Becoming an anti-racist church : journeying toward wholeness by 
Between the World and Me by 
The Black Church in the African American Experience (e-book) by Black New Jersey: 1664 to the present day by 
Black Practical Theology by 
Black prophetic fire : in dialogue with and edited by Christa Buschendorf by 
Black prophets of justice : activist clergy before the Civil War by Black protest; history, documents, and analyses, 1619 to the present by 
The Black Revolution on Campus (e-book) by 
Black scholars in White space : new vistas in African American studies from the Christian academy by 
Black Skin, White Masks by 
Black students in protest: a study of the origins of the Black student movement (e-book) by 
Black theology : essays on gender perspectives by 
Black Women's Christian Activism: seeking social justice in a northern suburb by 
Breaking white supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel by 
The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology by The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. du Bois (e-book) by 
Charleston Syllabus: readings on race, racism, and racial violence by 
The Christian Imagination: theology and the origins of race by 
Conjuring freedom : music and masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" (e-book) by 
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by 
Crossing the danger water : three hundred years of African-American writing by 
Daughters of Africa: an international anthology of words and writings by women of African descent from the ancient Egyptian to the present by 
David Walker's appeal, in four articles : together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America : third and last edition, revised and published by David Walker, 183 by 
Democracy in black : how race still enslaves the American soul by Early Negro Writing 1760-1837 by 
The Executed God: the way of the cross in lockdown America by 
Exodus preaching: crafting sermons about justice and hope by 
Faces at the bottom of the well : the permanence of racism by 
Fearless Dialogues: a new movement for justice by 
The Fire Next Time by 
The Fire This Time : a new generation speaks about race by 
Frederick Douglass, a psychobiography : rethinking subjectivity in the Western experiment of democracy by Freedom faith: the womanist vision of Prathia Hall by 
Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement by God's trombones; seven negro sermons in verse by 
God Has a Dream: a vision of hope for our time by 
The Ground Has Shifted: the future of the Black church in post-racial America by 
Hell Without Fires: slavery, Christianity, and the antebellum spiritual narrative by 
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (e-book) by 
I Believe I'll Testify: the art of African American preaching by 
I bring the voices of my people: a womanist vision for racial reconciliation by I Hear My People Singing - Voices of African American Princeton by 
I was born a slave : an anthology of classic slave narratives by 
If these stones could talk : African American presence in the Hopewell Valley, Sourland Mountain, and surrounding regions of New Jersey by 
I'm still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness by 
In struggle : SNCC and the Black awakening of the 1960s by 
Is it nation time? : contemporary essays on black power and black nationalism by 
I've got the light of freedom : the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle by 
James Baldwin: living in fire by 
Jesus and the Disinherited by 
Jezebel unhinged : loosing the black female body in religion and culture by 
Jonah's Gourd Vine by 
The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching by 
Langston's Salvation : American religion and the bard of Harlem by 
Malcolm X : a life of reinvention by 
Martin and Malcolm and America: a dream or a nightmare? by 
Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy : who was murdered in defence of the liberty of the press, at Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837 (e-book) by 
More Power in the Pulpit: how America's most effective Black preachers prepare their sermons by 
The Mount of vision : African American prophetic tradition, 1800-1950 (e-book) by 
My grandmother's hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies (e-book) by 
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by 
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by 
A Nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration by 
The New abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel by 
New World A-Coming: Black religion and racial identity during the great migration by 
No ashes in the fire: coming of age black & free in America by On the road to Damascus: the African-American conversion experience by 
Parable of the Brown Girl: the sacred lives of girls of color by 
Parable of the Sower by 
Passionately Human, No Less Divine : Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 by 
Pickin' cotton on the way to church: the life and work of Father Boniface Hardin, OSB by 
The Post-Black and post-White church : becoming the beloved community in a multi-ethnic world by 
Preacher woman sings the blues: the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelists by 
Race Matters by 
Racial purity and dangerous bodies : moral pollution, Black lives, and the struggle for justice by 
Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter with the African American Great Migration by 
Reimagining Hagar : blackness and bible by 
Religion of the field Negro : on Black secularism and Black theology by Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee (e-book) by Repair: redeeming the promise of abolition by Rev. Theodore Sedgwick Wright (1797-1847) : early Princeton Theological Seminary Black Abolitionist by 
Roadmap to Reconciliation : Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice by 
Root & branch: African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863 by 
Said I wasn't gonna tell nobody : the making of a Black theologian by 
Scarlet and Black by Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké by 
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform by 
The sin of racism : how to be set free by 
Sisters of the spirit : three Black women's autobiographies of the nineteenth century by 
Slave Religion: the "invisible institution" in the antebellum South by 
A Sojourner's truth : choosing freedom and courage in a divided world by 
The Soul of Judaism : Jews of African descent in America by 
The Souls of Black Folk by 
Spirit in the Dark: a religious history of racial aesthetics by 
Spiritual and Social Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches by 
Tears We Cannot Stop: a sermon to white America by 
This far by faith : readings in African-American women's religious biography by 
This far by faith : stories from the African American religious experience by 
This Is My Story: testimonies and sermons of Black women in ministry by 
Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black bodies, the Black church, and the Council of Chalcedon by 
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley : America's first Black poet and her encounters with the founding fathers by 
T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology by Unapologetic : a Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements by 
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement (e-book) by 
W. E. B. du Bois and the Sociology of the Black Church and Religion, 1897-1914 by 
W.E.B. Du Bois's data portraits : visualizing Black America : the color line at the turn of the twentieth century by 
Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement by 
The Water Dancer : a novel by 
We were eight years in power : an American tragedy by Were you there? : Lenten reflections on the spirituals by 
What a woman ought to be and to do : Black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era (e-book) by 
The Wretched of the Earth by 
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman by "As educators, when we teach about the history of racial violence, the history of the black church, the history of the Confederate flag, the history of the Obama presidency, or any number of other themes related to the centrality of race in American history, we will have to teach about Charleston."
Chad Williams
Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies
Brandeis University
June 23, 2015
Charleston Syllabus: readings on race, racism, and racial violence by 
Legends of Excellence Black History Collection [videorecording] by 
The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leading Multiracial and Multicultural Congregations by 
African American History Month 2008 by 
Children of God Storybook Bible by 
The Beatitudes : from slavery to civil rights by 
Through My Eyes by 
Reach High: The Delany Sisters by 
Addy Learns a Lesson: a school story by Dr. Yolanda N. Pierce highlighted the authors named above in a series of tweets in 2017. Prof. Pierce is now Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity. She had been the Elmer C. Homrighausen Associate Professor of Religion and Literature and the Director of the Black Church Studies Program at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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