Mary Abrums

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  Moving The Rock

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  Preface
  Introduction: A Short History

  Part I. Morning Sun Missionary Baptist Church
  Chapter 1. Morning Sun Church And Its Leaders
  Chapter 2. The Family
  Chapter 3. Motherhood

  Part II. The Women Of Morning Sun Church
  Chapter 4. Molly Lake Lander: “I Guess I Have To Go To Jesus”
  Chapter 5. Caren Lake: “Having A Dream”
  Chapter 6. Mahalia Lake: “I Don’t Ask The Lord To Move The Mountain, Just Give Me The Strength To Climb It”
  Chapter 7. Mable Jackson: “All I Asked The Lord For Was A Man With A Cigarette And A Job”
  Chapter 8. Betty Jones: “I Like To Go!”
  Chapter 9. Joann Jones Newton: “When God Comes, He’s Getting Some Of Every Race”
  Chapter 10. Marie Jones Smith: “Getting That Made-Up Mind”
  Chapter 11. Linda Wilson, Marie’s Daughter: “All These Years I Have Become Stronger”

  Part III. The Research Process
  Chapter 12. The Research, The Women, And Me

  Appendix: The Research Questions, Theories, And Methods

  Additional Info
  Moving the Rock portrays several generations of African American women whose families migrated from the South to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s and 1950s. As members of a small storefront church in central Seattle, these women-grandmothers, mothers, daughters-lean on their faith and church to face the challenges of poverty, racism, ignorance, and health. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it is painfully obvious that many of us know little about what it is like to be poor and Black in the United States. These powerful, profound stories bring this group of women and their problems (and joys) vividly and movingly to life.

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