Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

12. The Bridge That Was Their Backs: African American Women Traversing the Sacred and the Secular, 1880–1930

Hilton, Continental Room B

Chair: Clarence Taylor, Florida International University

Papers: Reconsidering the Sacred-Secular Divide: Debating the "Woman Question" in the African American Church, 1880–1900
Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan

Church and Migration in African American Women's Republican Culture, 1890s–1920s
Lisa G. Materson, University of California at Davis

"The Negro Church": Gender and the Making of a Paradigm
Barbara Dianne Savage, University of Pennsylvania

Comment: Judith Weisenfeld, Vassar College

   

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