34 ELSIE W. MASON, Bishop C. H. Mason, Church of God in Christ

2020 ◽  
pp. 314-324
Keyword(s):  
Church Of God ◽  
In Christ

“Move On Up a Little Higher”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Marovich
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Music ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Gospel Singing ◽  
Music Recording ◽  
Religious Festival

This chapter focuses on the explosion of gospel music recording in Chicago during the 1940s. One of the first Chicago gospel singers to record for an indie label in the immediate postwar period was Brother John Sellers. Meanwhile, his mentor, Mahalia Jackson, recorded the song “Move on Up a Little Higher,” for Apollo Records. This chapter examines some of the recordings made by Chicago gospel artists for Apollo Records, including the Roberta Martin Singers' “Old Ship of Zion,” as well as those by independent Chicago-based record companies like Hy-Tone Records. It also discusses the recordings of Rev. John Branham and the St. Paul Echoes of Eden Choir, Sallie Martin, and Louis Henry Ford and the St. Paul Church of God in Christ Choir. Finally, it considers the broadcasts of the Greater Harvest Baptist Church and the Forty-Fourth Street Baptist Church; the 1948 National Baptist Music Convention held in Houston, Texas; the Argo Singers; and gospel singing during the Religious Festival of Song, part of Chicago's annual Bud Billiken Parade.

“The Saints Go Marching”: Black Pentecostal Critical Consciousness and the Political Protest Activism of Pastors and Leaders in the Church of God in Christ in the Civil Rights Era

Pneuma ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Langston Chism
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Black Pentecostal ◽  
Spiritual Empowerment

Abstract Although black Pentecostal leaders are known for their emphasis on holiness and spiritual empowerment, they are not renowned for having led and spearheaded political protest struggles during the Civil Rights movement. In this paper I discuss black Pentecostals’ postures toward political protest struggles, and I analyze reasons why some black Pentecostals participated in the Civil Rights movement while others did not. My central argument is that critical consciousness formation played an integral role in motivating a minority of Church of God in Christ (COGIC) clergy and leaders to engage in Civil Rights protest struggles. That is to say, many black Pentecostals who took part in the movement reconciled their strivings for spiritual empowerment against evil with critical reflection upon complex social, political, and economic realities. They recognized the utility of opposing structures of oppression through direct, nonviolent means.

“If God be for you, who can be against you?”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Kornweibel,
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
In Christ ◽  
First World ◽  
The Church

This chapter explains how during the First World War the Bureau of Investigation (the FBI’s official name at the time) targeted the Church of God in Christ, one of the nation's largest Pentecostal denominations. The author Theodore Kornweibel, who has written extensively on the Federal government’s campaigns against black militancy in the period during and following World War I, examines the nature and consequences of this episode that marked the Bureau's first formal engagement with an American religious community.

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