In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.--the staunch and gentle man known to thousands in black churches throughout the South as the Singing Evangelist and to one white reporter as "the Colored Billy Graham"--is trying to compose his own obituary on what will be the last day of his life. In doing so, he looks back over that life--from his childhood in rural nothern Mississippi to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, from tears of humiliation to songs of celebration and triumph.
When "Do Lord Remember "was first published in 1984, the "Chicago Sun-Times "compared it to Alex Haley's "Roots," "Newsday "described it as "exquisitely crafted," "People "as "distinguished," the "Philadelphia Inquirer "as "riveting," and the "Cleveland Plain-Dealer "declared "every page has something worth remembering." Twenty years later and now a classic, "Do Lord Remember Me "is an eloquent and deeply moving story about a black family's dignified struggle for survival.
- ISBN10 0030715342
- ISBN13 9780030715341
- Publish Date 1 January 1985
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Holt McDougal
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 210
- Language English