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About the author

The author is Professor Emeritus of the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; andPastor and founder of Love of Christ A.M.E. Zion Tabernacle, Inc., Brandon, Florida. Sheearned her A.B. degree in English from LeMoyne College, Memphis, Tennessee in 1959;her M.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor, in 1963; her M.A. degree in Religious Studies in 1973 from Colgate RochesterDivinity School, Rochester, NY; her Ph.D. degree from Emory University in Literature andTheology in 1980. She has published five books in her long career as college and universityprofessor, scholar, and minister, having spent 33 years as Professor of Religious Studies atthe University of South Florida.

About the book

This is a searching perceptive examination of the fifty years of Dr. Mitchell’s service as a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ministry and a scholar in the church and university, how she was led into this dual profession, how she survived in it as a Black woman, how social movements and changes in the society impacted her life and ambitions, and most of all how God was always

working in her life over more than eight decades, guiding, directing, sustaining her and enabling her to achieve His purposes for her life, thereby getting the glory out of her life for the good of her family, others, friends, and the church and society. She accepted her role as a divine instrument, and only God could have enabled her to adjust and readjust to the rapid changes taking place from one decade to another in the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, the Women’s Rights Movement, the Black Womanist Movement.