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Freedom Faith
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
Writing:
- Henry E. Hampton
Release Date:
Sun, Feb 02, 2003
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 360
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 360
Lorraine Toussaint
Narrator
Season 1:
Explore the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America to the influence of Christian teachings imposed on slaves in the new world.
After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
