The Utopia Park affair -- Assessing the Utopia Park affair -- The tenor of the times -- The black experience in Adventism, 1840-1930 -- The church history of the Sabbath-Day Adventists -- The Sabbath-Day Adventist church after Humphrey
Summary
In James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists, R. Clifford Jones tells the story of this important black religious figure and his attempt to bring about self-determination for twentieth-century blacks in New York City. Humphrey was a Baptist minister who joined the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church shortly after arriving in New York City from Jamaica at the turn of the twentieth century. A leader of uncommon competency and charisma, Humphrey functioned as an SDA minister in Harlem during the time the community became the black capital of the United States. Though he led his congregatio
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-242) and index
