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Article: Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940.
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- March 1, 2000
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Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940. By Robert Gregg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xvi + 272 pp. $19.95 paper.
Robert Gregg's Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression is a closely argued discussion of the role of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) during the Great Migration of southern black folks to Philadelphia. Originally Gregg's dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, the work contains the kind of specialized language and copious documentation one tends to associate with such studies. In the author's words, "The central concern of this study has been to highlight ...