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J. Russell Hawkins
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“The evangelical world these Christians inhabit has been shaped in part by a segregationist Christianity whose influence lingers on unrecognized today.”
― The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
― The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
“The response to the Brown decision began a pattern that segregationist Christians repeated over the subsequent decade with the advancement of civil rights. When black Americans procured their constitutional freedoms, white Christians reacted by writing their elected officials to remind them that these changes violated God's plan for humanity.”
― The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
― The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
“Asking white southerners to ignore their religious beliefs in pursuit of racial equality was seemingly asking the impossible. These white southerners did not undertake their resistance to black equality in spite of their religious convictions, but their faith drove their support of Jim Crow segregation. Central to the drama for racial justice that unfolded during America’s civil rights years lay an indisputable religious conflict between black Christian activists and their white Christian antagonists both of whom confidently, proudly, and often joyously claimed God's favor for their political stance.”
― The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
― The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
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