By Ralph E. Luker
In an important revision of accredited knowledge, this e-book, initially released via UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity performed a massive position in racial reform through the interval among Emancipation and the civil rights circulation. As corporations created by means of the heirs of antislavery sentiment foundered within the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a brand new new release of black and white reformers—many of them representatives of yankee social christianity—explored quite a few strategies to the matter of racial clash. a few of them helped to arrange the Federal Council of church buildings in 1909, whereas others back to abolitionist and residential missionary techniques in organizing the NAACP in 1910 and the nationwide city League in 1911. A part century later, such firms shaped the institutional middle of America's civil rights circulation. Luker additionally exhibits that the black prophets of social Christianity who espoused theological personalism created an influential culture that at last produced Martin Luther King Jr.
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