Liberty and Justice for All: Racial Reform and the Southern Gospel (1877-1925)

by Ronald C. White Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664224938
• ISBN13: 9780664224936
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Solid review of the issue

This is a very good study of the social gospel and how it handled the racial issue. White, one of the leading historians of the social gospel, offers numerous case studies of social gospel advocates in addition to his general overview and the book benefits as a result. Fairly interesting and certainly recommended.