Father Divine was the leader of the International Peace Mission Movement, which appeared in Brooklyn around 1919, and embraced racial equality, peace and non-violence.

A: the Father Divine Story (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 67.

Watts applied the same exhaustive research of military records, city directories, interviews with McDaniel's associates and careful consideration of personal correspondences that she used to write her two other biographies--Go, Harlem, USA: The Father Divine Story (University of California, reprint February 1995) and Mae West: An Icon in Black and White (Oxford University Press, April 2003).