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From devoted son to slave, from prisoner to prime minister of
Egypt, Joseph's life was continually blessed by God. You too can be
empowered by God's special anointing in every circumstance through
applying these "Joseph principles" to your life.
Why did southern white evangelical Christians resist the civil
rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Simply put, they believed
the Bible told them so. These white Christians entered the battle
certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights
movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success,
fundamentally transformed American society. But this victory did
little to change southern white evangelicals' theological
commitment to segregation. Rather than abandoning their
segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white
evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still
controlled-churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and
secondary schools-and fought on. Focusing on the case of South
Carolina, The Bible Told Them So shows how, despite suffering
defeat in the public sphere, white evangelicals continued to battle
for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a
segregationist Christianity they continued to believe reflected
God's will. Increasingly caught in the tension between their
sincere belief that God desired segregation and their reluctance to
give voice to such ideas for fear of being perceived as bigoted or
intolerant, by the late 1960s southern white evangelicals embraced
the rhetoric of colorblindness and protection of the family as
measures to maintain both segregation and respectable social
standing. This strategy set southern white evangelicals on an
alternative path for race relations in the decades ahead.
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