Today will be discussing the remarkable transformation the city of Chicago--as well as much of the urban north--experience throughout the twentieth century. Where Chicago's African Americans comprised only 1% of the population in 1900, bu 1970 that number would reach 33%. The vast majority of these black migrants were rural southerners running away the oppressive conditions of the segregating south and running towards the economic opportunities in the factories of the urban north. But this demographic and economic transformation also had distinctly religious manifestations as well. We'll be talking about the alternative religiosities and theological innovations of black southerners in the great white north. We'll consider the architectural peculiarities of store front churches, the Pentecostal denominations of Elder Lucy Smith, as well as the rise of Gospel Music in Chicago. As an example, here's Elder Smith's daughter, who became a popular gospel singer in Chicago and abroad.
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