This dissertation is a social history of African-American Baptist communities of faith in Savannah, Georgia from 1928 until 1968. In locating spiritual and theological changes that took place among Baptist women and men during this period, it explores relationships between the sacred and the secular, the political and eschatological, and between faith claims and day-to-day living. Ultimately, I argue that any separation between the sacred and the secular creates a false dichotomy that simply did not exist in the hearts and minds of Savannah’s Baptists who struggled against the violence of racism in the early years, and launched an offensive against Jim Crow in the latter ones.