You will a response of 500-750 words, using Reading and Study resources for Week 3, and the suggested sources below. In the Response, you will assess how the Great Migration shaped African American churches, as millions of African Americans moved North and West out of the South, and how, in turn, these church communities influenced the culture and politics of bourgeoning urban communities. 

Instructions

Part I: A Brief Summary of the Sources Provided

Identify the author and arguments of the sources provided.

Provide a brief summary, condensing the content of the sources by highlighting the main ideas.

Use 1-2 short quotations from the material to support your synthesis.

Keep the summary objective and factual.

Part II: Your Reaction to the Work 

Focus on responding to the prompt.

How are the related problems relevant to the overall class?

• How is the work related to problems in our present-day world?

Do viewing the sources change your ideas on the topic?

• Does using a Christian worldview change the way the sources are evaluated?

Part III

• Proof-read your work. Avoid common spelling and grammar mistakes, and avoid passive voice.

Make sure each major paragraph presents and develops a single main point.

• Organize your material.

Cite paraphrased and quoted material.

Suggested sources include: (links are included in the Reading and Study Module 3 in Blackboard).

Carter Woodson, The History of the Negro Church, The Associated Publishers: Washington D.C., 1921. https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/woodson/woodson.ht…

African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/reader.action?docID=3007887&query=

• Chapter V, “From the Great Migration to World War II.” To access this, follow the link provided in blackboard, and then click on Chapter V in the table of contents.

Suggested reading includes Chapter XIV, “The Recent Growth of the Negro Church.”

• Excerpts include: 

38- “African Methodist Episcopal Council of Bishops: Address on the Great Migration”

• 39- “Letters on the Second Exodus: ‘Dear Mary’ and ‘My Dear Sister'”

40- “Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church”