Social Gospel in Black and White

by Ralph E. Luker

Book Overview

In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement.
As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery sentiment
foundered in the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a new generation of black and white reformers--many of them representatives of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847208
• ISBN13: 9780807847206
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"