The last blues preacher : Reverend Clay Evans, black lives, and the faith that woke the nation /

The last blues preacher : Reverend Clay Evans, black lives, and the faith that woke the nation /

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Author / Creator:	Mills, Zachary William, author.
Imprint:	Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2018]. ©2018.
Description:	xxvi, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Evans, Clay, -- Rev. Evans, Clay, -- Rev. African American Baptists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography. African American Baptists -- Clergy -- Biography. African American clergy -- Biography. Gospel singers -- United States -- Biography. Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography. African American Baptists. African American clergy. Civil rights workers. Gospel singers. Illinois -- Chicago. United States. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11551792

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ISBN:	1506428177 9781506428178
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	Born in 1925 into a life of sharecropping in Brownsville, Tennessee, Clay Evans was desperate to escape life working for the descendants of plantation owners. At night, he listened to jazz musicians like Cab Calloway and Guy Lombardo on the radio and imagined one day singing on a secular stage. But a greater calling drew Evans into ministry, and he soon stood upon a unique stage as one of America's most famous gospel singers, civil rights heroes, and the godfather of Chicago's black preachers. From this stage Clay sought to rescue his family from poverty and inspire a city and a nation to see, hear, and witness the dignity and value of black lives. Zach Mills's lively and powerful biography, The Last Blues Preacher, brings the life and work of Reverend Evans into our time and examines how current national conversations on race, religion, politics, and popular culture can and should inform contemporary activism.

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Call Number:	BX6455.E93 M550 2018
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