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A praxiological curriculum for a black church to resist voter suppression
Moses, Patrick Dewan
Moses, Patrick Dewan
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2024-07-25
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I contend that a Black Church has the liberative power to overcome voter suppression tactics
created by legislative action. This for-ministry project provides Elm Grove District Association affiliated
Black Baptist Churches with a creative, practical solution to resist voter suppression. In
Texas, as in each of the fifty states in the U.S., local governments manage election
administration. County election officials delegate voting to volunteers. During the Civil Rights
era, many Black churches served as primary institutions to register African Americans who had
been prohibited from the ballot box by southern states' Jim Crow laws. By replicating the Rev.
James M. Lawson's historic tenet of nonviolent resistance, which is voting, a Black Church
possesses the prophetic presence to resist the sin of voter suppression. Using an inductive
pedagogical approach, I created a praxiological curriculum for a Black Baptist Church to recruit
and empower (sponsor) members to become Volunteer Deputy Registrars (VDR). An
empowered VDR registers voters and practices other proactive actions, such as informing the
community about upcoming elections and changes to the election laws and preparing new voters
to engage in the sacred, democratic act of voting. Through congregational input, an empowered
VDR develops and executes an Action Plan or Voting Strategy that helps the Black Church resist
voter suppression in their community.
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Theology
African American studies
Black studies
Practical theology
Voter suppression
Black church
African American studies
Black studies
Practical theology
Voter suppression
Black church
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Brite Divinity School