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SUMMARY:Faculty Diversity Book Club: Mother Emanuel
DESCRIPTION:via MS TEAMS\n\nMother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, 
 Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\nby Kevin Sack 
 (Author)\n\nFew people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel 
 African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before 
 the night of June 17\, 2015\, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist 
 walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church’s charismatic pastor 
 and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted Mother 
 Emanuel—the first A.M.E. church in the South—to agitate racial strife\, 
 he did not anticipate the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from the 
 victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have 
 afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European 
 settlement.\n\nMother Emanuel explores the fascinating history that brought 
 the church to that moment and the depth of the desecration committed in its 
 fellowship hall. It reveals how African Methodism was cultivated from the 
 harshest American soil\, and how Black suffering shaped forgiveness into 
 both a religious practice and a survival tool. Kevin Sack\, who has written 
 about race in his native South for more than four decades\, uses the church 
 to trace the long arc of Black life in the city where nearly half of 
 enslaved Africans disembarked in North America and where the Civil War 
 began. Through the microcosm of one congregation\, he explores the 
 development of a unique practice of Christianity\, from its daring 
 breakaway from white churches in 1817\, through the traumas of Civil War 
 and Reconstruction\, to its critical role in the Civil Rights Movement and 
 beyond.\n\nAt its core\, Mother Emanuel is an epic tale of perseverance\, 
 not just of a congregation but of a people who withstood enslavement\, Jim 
 Crow\, and all manner of violence with an unbending faith.\n\n \n\nBooks 
 will be provided upon request from the CTL. Email to schedule a time to 
 pick up a copy at the CTL office or contact Jennifer Maney with any 
 questions.
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Maney":MAILTO:jennifer.maney@marquette.edu
CATEGORIES:Diversity Book Club
CONTACT;CN="Jennifer Maney":MAILTO:jennifer.maney@marquette.edu
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