Of the myriad Black new religious movements that developed during the time of the Great Migration, many stood outside of Christianity but some, like the Black Coptic Church, remained at least partially within the Christian fold. Founded by Prophet Cicero Patterson in Chicago, the Black Coptic Church combined elements of Black Protestant and Black Hebrew traditions with Ethiopianism, constructing a divine racial identity that embraced the idea of a royal Egyptian heritage for its African American followers. This embrace of a royal Blackness-what Leonard Cornell McKinnis II calls an act of "fugitive spirituality"-illuminates how the Black Coptic tradition employs a religio-performative imagination. McKinnis asks, "What does it mean to imagine Blackness otherwise?" Drawing on ten years of archival research and interviews with current members of the church, this book offers a look at a group that insisted on its own understanding of its divine Blackness. In the process, it provides a more complex look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, particularly within non-mainstream Christian churches.