Description: A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop
Brief description: Andre E. Johnson is associate professor of rhetoric and media studies and scholar in residence at the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. He is author of No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and editor of The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: Drawing extensively from Turner's published sermons, editorials, newspaper articles, and personal letters (culled from the archival collections of Turner's correspondents), Johnson's study is one of the most comprehensive portraits to date. Johnson has now also published an edited collection, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University Press of Mississippi, 2023) and is at work on a digital archive project dedicated to collecting and curating works by and about Turner. Taken together, Johnson's efforts to "recover [Turner's] lost voice" make a significant contribution to the study of a seminal figure in African American religious history--Heather Curtis "The Journal of Religion"