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Bishop Charles H. Mason in the Age of Jim Crow profiles the life
and career of Charles Harrison Mason. Mason was the founder of the
Church of God in Christ (COGIC), which from its Memphis roots, grew
into the most significant black Pentecostal denomination in the
United States, with profound theological and political
ramifications for poor and working-class black Memphians. Bishop
Charles H. Mason in the Age of Jim Crow is grounded in the history
of the Jim Crow era. The book traces the origins of COGIC in
Memphis; it reveals just how Mason's new black Pentecostal
denomination grew, gained social and political power, and earned a
permanent place in Memphis's black religious pantheon. This book
tells how a son of slaves transformed a rural migrant movement into
an urban phenomenon, unusual religious demonstrations exemplified
infrapolitical religious protests, how these rituals of resistance
changed black lives, and helped strengthen and sustain blacks
fighting for freedom in segregated Memphis. Mark the Perfect Man
reveals why Charles H. Mason was an inherent pre-civil rights
religious leader, who laid the groundwork for integrated churches.
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