This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys — Season 1, Episode 2: God Is a Negro
Documentary • 360 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.
About This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys
Celebrate the triumph of the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. From the arrival of the early African slaves through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st Century, explore the epic struggle of a people whose faith was continually tested, and how that faith became a force for social change that helped transform America socially, politically and culturally.