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Walker, Jerald.
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Walker, Jerald.
Worldwide Church of God -- Biography.
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Boys, Black -- Biography.
Families, Black -- Biography.
Children of blind parents -- Biography.
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Walker, Jerald.
Walker, Jerald.
Worldwide Church of God -- Biography.
Blacks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Boys, Black -- Biography.
Families, Black -- Biography.
Children of blind parents -- Biography.
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The world in flames : a
black
boyhood
in a
white
supremacist
doomsday
cult
/ Jerald Walker.
by
Walker, Jerald.
Beacon Press, c2016.
Call #:
289.9092 W181w
Subjects
Walker, Jerald.
Worldwide Church of God -- Biography.
Blacks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Boys,
Black
-- Biography.
Families,
Black
-- Biography.
Children of blind parents -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780807027509 (hardcover)
0807027502 (hardcover)
Alternate title:
Black
boyhood
in a
white
supremacist
doomsday
cult
Description:
x, 197 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated
cult
preaching the imminent end of the world When The World in Flames begins, in 1970, Jerald Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose teachings he finds confusing and terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of religious beliefs, the underlying tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong s Worldwide Church of God was that members were God s chosen race and all others would perish in just a few years time. The next life, according to Armstrong, would arrive in 1975, three years after the Great Tribulation. Walker would be eleven years old. Walker s parents were particularly vulnerable to the promise of relief from this world s hardships. They were living in a two-room apartment in a dangerous Chicago housing project with their four children. Both were blind, having lost their sight to childhood accidents, and took comfort in the belief that they had been chosen for a better afterlife. When the initial prophecy of the 1972 Great Tribulation does not materialize, Walker is considerably less disappointed than relieved. When the End-Time 1975 prophecy also fails, he finally begins to question his faith and to see a potential future for himself.
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