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Church People in the Struggle - The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970 (Paperback)
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Church People in the Struggle - The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970 (Paperback)
Series: Religion in America
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This comprehensive study represents the first effort by an
historian to examine the relationship of the mainstream Protestant
Churches to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The focus is on
the National Council of Churches, the principal ecumenical
organization of the national Protestant religious establishment.
Drawing on hitherto little-used and unknown archival resources and
extensive interviews with participants, Findlay reveals the
widespread participation of the predominantly white churches in the
efforts moving toward black freedom that continued throughout the
sixties. He documents the churches' active involvement in the March
on Washington in 1963 and the massive lobbying effort to secure
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, their powerful support of
the struggle to end legal segregation in Mississippi, and their
efforts to respond to the Black Manifesto and the rise of black
militancy before and during 1969. Findlay chronicles initial
successes, then growing frustration as the national liberal
coalition, of which the churches were a part, disintegrated as the
events of the 1960s unfolded. For the first time, Findlay's study
makes clear the highly significant role played by liberal religious
groups in the turbulent, exciting, moving, and historic events of
the 1960s.
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