Mission to Black America: The True Story of James Edson White and the Riverboat Morning Star

by Ronald D. Graybill

Paperback, 1971

Status

Check shelf

Call number

SC Gr

Genres

Religion & Spirituality

History

Nonfiction

Collection

SC: Story Colllection shelves, alcove on right (WHITE label)

Publication

Pacific Press Publishing Association

Description

Ron Graybill's Mission to Black America remains as singular and significant an achievement as it was when first published nearly 50 years ago. It is a page-turner, accessible to readers across the spectrum of age groups and educational levels, and grounded in historical research of the highest caliber. That's singular! It is also an honest account that inspires, not because its characters are flawless but because of their bold persistence in seeking to heal injustices along racial and economic lines, even though doing so provoked reprisals from powerful interests. The first edition of Mission to Black America in 1971 helped prod and guide a church grappling with a civil rights revolution that had left it behind. Re-readers and new readers today will find in this new edition as much or more significance for current issues, along with the joy of an exciting, meaningful story. -Douglas Morgan, PhD, professor of History & Political Studies, Washington Adventist University… (more)

Local notes

0000-1358-2727

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In Mission to Black America Ron Graybill, young author of Ellen G White and Church Race Relations, tells the harrowing in yet expiring story of James Edson White's heroic and misunderstood efforts to spread the advent message among the black people of Mississippi around the turn of the century. The

black people were willing to listen, but not everyone wanted them to hear.Mission to Black America at the turn-of-the-century is also a message to the whole world as it nears the end of the century: "In Christ there is no East or West, in him no south or north."

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