One Black Church's Influence on Afro-American Socio-Economic Assimilation

FAIN: FB-13144-77

Rudolph Martin, Jr
Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA 98505-0001)

Examination of one black organization, the Church of God in Christ, Inc., to attempt to learn some significant things about how the African religious impulse has contributed to the Afro-American's survival of slavery and to his assimilation into the American socioeconomic mainstream. Other relationships to be investigated are: the influence of the black family on the organization, the class consciousness of the Afro-American population, comparisons between COGIC and other black church organizations.