Journal of Southern History, November 1st, 2004
The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959. By Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson. (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, c. 2002. Pp. xvi, 325. $42.00, ISBN 0-87338-748-1.)
Historian Gayraud S. Wilmore once remarked that Reverdy Cassius Ransom was one of only a few ministers equipped to assume leadership of efforts to "radicalize the Black church" after the death of Henry M. Turner (Wilmore, Black Religion and Black Radicalism [Garden City, N.Y., 1972], 187). One wonders why Ransom, so recognized and venerated, has received limited scholarly attention. Until now, no schol...
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