... This chapter traces the cross-country roots of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., to its founding in Harlem in 1919 by Robert C. and Carrie F. Lawson. The organization rose to national stature because of Robert Lawson’s antiracist theology, which placed Black women...

... This chapter shows the ways in which women conduct overlapping organizational and spiritual labor through officially recognized auxiliaries. They began arranging these horizontal networks to further the mission of the Jesus-only church in the early 1920s by establishing the three “women’s...