Black Fire

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Black Fire - African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> gathers together the voices of 18 remarkable individuals who spoke and wrote as African Americans from within the Quaker community. they testify about their viewpoints on racial justice -- both within the Religious Society of Friends and society at large - and they speak of their life in the Spirit. As a collection these selections exhibit the vitality and wisdom that three centuries of African American Quakers have contributed to and on behalf of Friends.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The book contains writings by: Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) William Boen (1735-1824) Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) Elizabeth (1766-1866) Sojourner Truth (1799-1883) Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806-1882) Robert Purvis (1810-1898) Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Howard Thurman (1899-1981) Ira DeAugustine Reid (1901-1968) Barrington Dunbar (1901-1978) Helen Morgan Brooks (1904-1989) Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) Mahala Ashley Dickerson (1912-2007) Bill Sutherland (1918- 2010 ) Charles Nichols (1919-2007) George Sawyer (1925-2002) Vera Green (1928-1982).</span></p><p><br></p>