Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Segregation; 1. Racial Paternalism and Christian Mission after the Civil War; 2. Negro Work and the Decline of the Jim Crow Church; Part II: Integration; 3. The Impact of the Brown Decision; 4. Theology, Social Activism, and the Founding of ESCRU; 5. The Church's Response to the Civil Rights Crisis; 6. Christian Witness and Racial Integration in the Deep South; Part III: Fragmentation; 7. Black Power and the Urban Crisis in the North; 8. Backlash and the End of the Civil Rights Era; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E
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Summary
Meeting at an African American college in North Carolina in 1959, a group of black and white Episcopalians organized the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity and pledged to oppose all distinctions based on race, ethnicity, and social class. They adopted a motto derived from Psalm 133: """"Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity!"""" Though the spiritual intentions of these individuals were positive, the reality of the association between blacks and whites in the church was much more complicated. Episcopalians and Race examines the often amb
