Liberty and Justice for All: Racial Reform and the Social Gospel (1877-1925)In the century between the "Emancipation Proclamation" of Abraham Lincoln and the "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King Jr., America sought both to rebuff and to redeem the promise of "liberty and justice for all." The story of slavery and the bloody civil war that abolished it has been told, but the story of the struggle for liberty and justice by and for African Americans in the half-century following the end of Reconstruction has been largely overlooked. In this highly readable narrative, distinguished historian Ronald C. White Jr. portrays the people, their ideas, and their ongoing struggle for racial reform in the United States from 1877-1925--a vital prelude to the modern civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Contents
The Negro Question | 3 |
Reappraisal in the North | 10 |
Beyond Accommodation to Reform | 27 |
Dissenting Voices in the South | 41 |
A Missionary Education Bridge | 61 |
DARKNESS OR DAWNING? 18981908 | 75 |
The Gospel of Education | 77 |
Washington and Du Bois | 91 |
NEW VENTURES IN RACIAL REFORM 19091925 | 167 |
The NAACP and the Urban League | 169 |
The Student Christian Movement | 187 |
The Changing Mind of the Social Gospel | 208 |
The Church Outside the Churches | 226 |
Ecumenical Race Relations | 245 |
Epilogue | 261 |
Notes | 277 |
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