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Black Bishop: Edward T. Demby and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Episcopal Church (Studies in Angelican...
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by Michael J. Beary
Sales Rank: 1960023
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 328 pages
Published by: University of Illinois Press December 27, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0252026187
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0252026188
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Book Description
In 1918, the Right Reverend Edward T. Demby took up the reins as Suffragan (assistant) Bishop for Colored Work in Arkansas and the Province of the Southwest, an area encompassing Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and New Mexico. Set within the context of a series of experiments in black leadership conducted by the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas in the early decades of the twentieth century, Demby's tenure in a segregated ministry illuminates the greater American experience of segregation disguised as a social good.
Intent on demonstrating the industry and self-reliance of black Episcopalians to the church at large, Demby set about securing black priests for the diocese, baptizing and confirming communicants, and building schools and other institutions of community service. A gifted leader and a committed Episcopalian, Demby recognized that black service institutions, such as schools, hospitals, and orphanages, would be the means to draw African Americans back to the Episcopal Church, which they had abandoned in droves after emancipation as the church of their former masters.
For more than twenty years, hamstrung by white apathy, lack of funds, jurisdictional ambiguity, and the Great Depression, Demby doggedly tried to establish the credibility of a ministry that was as ill conceived as it was well intended. Michael J. Beary skillfully narrates the shifting alliances within the Episcopal Church and shows how race was but one aspect of a more elemental struggle for power. He demonstrates how Demby's steadiness of purpose and nonconfrontational manner gathered allies on both sides of the color line and how, ultimately, his judgment and the weight of his experience carried the church past its segregationist experiment.
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"This book is a thoroughly researched study of the indomitable faith and courage of the Episcopal Church's pioneer black bishop. It is also an insightful treatment of a church that professed the ideals of catholicity through inclusion and racial justice but actualized the status quo of racist America through compromise and segregation." -- Rev. J. Carleton Hayden, Episcopal/Anglican chaplain, Howard University "Michael Beary is to be commended for producing such a useful and important study--a highly revealing portrait not only of Edward T. Demby but also of the church in the South in the early twentieth century. Black Bishop is a much needed book that helps close a major gap in the historiography of race relations in the Episcopal Church." – Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr., author of Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights
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