Black Faith: The Churches They Built and the God They Kept — Interactive Edition

Black Faith: The Churches They Built and the God They Kept by Carlos L. Young Sr. — Interactive Edition. Volume 12 of the Left Out of the History Books series (The Digital Black Voice).

Before Black America had schools, banks, or ballots, it had the church — and it built that church itself, in secret brush arbors and then in brick. This volume documents 28 churches, founders, and movements in chronological order: George Liele preaching before emancipation and carrying Baptist work to Jamaica in 1782; Richard Allen walking out of St. George's and founding the AME Church in 1816; the Oblate Sisters of 1829; the great Baptist schism of 1915; Charles Mason and COGIC; William Seymour and Azusa Street; the storefront era; Thurman; and the church as the civil rights movement's infrastructure — told as documented institutional history, with each tradition's beliefs stated as its own teachings and every founding date checked.

Interactive Edition: 28 profiles, timeline, search, read-aloud, bookmarks, 10-question quiz.