Adam L. Bond is associate professor of religion and African American studies at Baylor University. He is a historian of Christianity in the United States. His research and writing focus on the narratives and ideas of Black Christian leaders of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
His published works include I’ve Been Called: Now What?, The Imposing Preacher: Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Black Public Faith, and a co-edited volume entitled Church on Purpose: Reinventing Discipleship, Community, and Justice. He is currently working on a history of African American Baptists entitled Read the Text First: Black Baptist Leaders and the Pulpit of Race Literature.
Black Baptist Leaders and their Distinctive Literature
Dr. Bond's presentation is entitled, “Black Baptist Leaders and their Distinctive Literature.” This webinar will introduce some of Dr. Bond's research on the writings of Black Baptist leaders during the middle of the twentieth century. In 1902, the Baptist missionary Virginia Broughton called for African American women and men to write a "distinctive literature." She wanted the race to produce materials across varied genres of literature that would display the history, aspirations, and concerns of Black people. Bond will present examples from the works of Nannie Helen Burroughs, Adam Clayton Powell Sr., and Olivia Pearl Stokes to highlight their uses of print media and examine the aims of their efforts.