The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America

by Jarod Roll and Erik S. Gellman

Book Overview

In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams, along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams, drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252078403
• ISBN13: 9780252078408
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"