In what ways has the African-American church been the center of social and political life for the African-American community, historically.

It would
very difficult, and quite impractical, to minimize the importance of the Black Church to the
African American community over the course of centuries.  In their 1990 study of precisely this
topic, The Black Church in the African American Experience, C. Eric
Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya note,

. . .the impact of
the Black Church on the spiritual, social, economic, educational, and political interests that
structure life in America €“ including the mainline white churches themselves €“ can scarcely be
overlooked in any realistic appraisal of our common religious experience.

Religious observance, and the unifying role of churches across the
multitude of denominations to which African Americans have historically identified, has been
integral to that communitys existence.  From the Negro spirituals of the slave era to the more
militant, separatist approach of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, cast into the public consciousness by
virtue of his affiliation to the...

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