No Easy Walk: The Dramatic Journey of African-Americans - Softcover

In No Easy Walk: The Dramatic Journey of African-Americans, Harry Williams chronicles this long, difficult and courageous journey through history. Writing in engaging prose, he traces black Americans’ ancestral origins in Africa, describes days of slavery and emancipation, and retells the heartaches and triumphs of the civil rights era. Throughout he gives special emphasis to the role of the black church.

This accessible introduction to black history is ideal reading for African-American History Month. Here are valuable lessons and insights for students, parents and readers of any ethnicity.

Harry Williams, raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, is a student at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and an associate minister at Second Baptist Church Cathedral in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

"No Easy Walk is just what is needed--a Christian primer on African and African-American history that will be useful to both black and white Christians. Written in an engaging style, this book will be hard for most readers to put down!" Craig S. Keener, coauthor, Black Man’s Religion and Defending Black Faith

Contents

Prologue: Whispers of Blackness

Part One: West Africa in Antiquity
1 The Ancient Patriarch
2 Black West Africa

Part Two: From African Kingdoms to American Slavery
3 Slavemakers
4 Slavery in the United States of America
5 Plantation Life
6 Roots of the Black Church
7 Civil War Divides the Union

Part Three: From Reconstruction to the New African-American Leadership
8 Reconstruction
9 The Rise of the New African-American Leaders

Part Four: From the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Power Revolution
10 The Civil Rights Movement
11 The Rise, Fall and Rise of Malcolm X
12 The Changing of the Guard
13 America in Flames

Part Five: The Post-Civil Rights Era
14 Black Money: The Rise of the New Black Middle Class
15 African-American in the Inner City
16 The Second Resurrection: The Rise of the Nation of Islam
17 The Rise of the New Black Church

Epilogue: Deliverance
Notes
Index