Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

CTL-E-3494 · Person · scholar · contemporary

VERIFIED evidence grade of this record

Sociologist of religion whose scholarship documents Black church women’s leadership, including the Church Mothers office.

The record

Also known as: Cheryl Gilkes

Notes

Created by CultureTechLens batch RELP79 (2026-10-06); research-complete via claims on focal entities.

Relationships

Church Mothers — related to
Gilkes’s scholarship documents the Church Mothers office (nature: scholarly documentation).

Referenced by

If It Wasn’t for the Women — authored by → this record

Sources

Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering — “Church mothers and civil rights women”

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