Breaking Down Barriers: A Black Evangelical Explains the Black Church

In Breaking Down Barriers, Dr. Dwight A. Perry provides a brief history of the Black Church in America and shows how it has survived as a shelter from a hostile world. He offers an introduction to Black evangelicalism, placing it with context of the traditional Black church and white evangelicalism. Perry writes, “The entity at the heart of the Black community in America is the Black Church. It has made its strong imprint not only on the Black Community, but on the whole of society.