Author: Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780873386074

Joseph Gomez (1890-1979) was ordained a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1948. This biography of Gomez provides a history of black life during the early 20th century and chronicles the political and religious stuggles of the first autonomous black church in the US.