Go and Be Reconciled: Alabama Methodists Confront Racial Injustice, 1954-1974

by William Nicholas

Book Overview

During the climactic years of the civil rights movement in the Deep South, a closely related struggle was going on within the United Methodist Church. That denomination, second only in membership in the region to the Southern Baptists, was slowly moving toward integration under mandate from its national governing body, the Methodist General conference. But in Alabama, external institutional pressures and even internal constituencies were not strong...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588383253
• ISBN13: 9781588383259
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"