Author: John Hamilton ReedPublisher:
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Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Racial Adjustments in the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: John Hamilton ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Racial Adjustments in the Methodist Episcopal Church (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Hamilton ReedPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331737806
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Excerpt from Racial Adjustments in the Methodist Episcopal Church It is claimed that the residential episcopacy is a step in the right direction and needs only the election of a colored General Superintendent, who will cooperate with our bishops residing in Southern territory in order to prove to the world that Methodism is able to measure up to the New Testament's standard of our holy re ligion, and to aid in bringing in the day when the whole world shall blend most harmoniously into one eternal brotherhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Basis of Racial Adjustment
Author: Thomas Jackson Woofter (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Methodism's Racial Dilemma
Author: James S. ThomasPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Central Jurisdiction was created for African American members of the merger in 1939 of: The Methodist Episcopal Church, The Methodist Episcopal Church South, and The Methodist Protestant Church.
A Long Reconstruction
Author: Paul William HarrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780197571835
Category : Race relations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? Conventional historical timelines mark the end of Reconstruction in the year 1877, but the Methodist Episcopal Church continued to wrestle with issues of racial inclusion for decades after political support for racial reform had receded. An 1844 schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries and teachers into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M.E. Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination.
The Basis of Racial Adjustment
Author: Thomas Jackson Woofter (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The New Voice in Race Adjustments
Author: Arcadius McSwain TrawickPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975
Author: Peter C. MurrayPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262473
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975, Peter C. Murray contributes to the history of American Christianity and the Civil Rights movement by examining a national institution the Methodist Church (after 1968 the United Methodist Church) and how it dealt with the racial conflict centered in the South. Murray begins his study by tracing American Methodism from its beginnings to the secession of many African Americans from the church and the establishment of separate northern and southern denominations in the nineteenth century. He then details the reconciliation and compromise of many of these segments in 1939 that led to the unification of the church. This compromise created the racially segregated church that Methodists struggled to eliminate over the next thirty years. During the Civil Rights movement, American churches confronted issues of racism that they had previously ignored. No church experienced this confrontation more sharply than the Methodist Church. When Methodists reunited their northern and southern halves in 1939, their new church constitution created a segregated church structure that posed significant issues for Methodists during the Civil Rights movement. Of the six jurisdictional conferences that made up the Methodist Church, only one was not based on a geographic region: the Central Jurisdiction, a separate conference for "all Negro annual conferences." This Jim Crow arrangement humiliated African American Methodists and embarrassed their liberal white allies within the church. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision awakened many white Methodists from their complacent belief that the church could conform to the norms of the South without consequences among its national membership. Murray places the struggle of the Methodist Church within the broader context of the history of race relations in the United States. He shows how the effort to destroy the barriers in the church were mirrored in the work being done by society to end segregation. Immensely readable and free of jargon, Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930 1975, will be of interest to a broad audience, including those interested in the Civil Rights movement and American church history.
Southern Women and Racial Adjustment
Author: Lily Hardy HammondPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Methodist Unification
Author: Morris L DavisPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814720315
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
“A ground-breaking analysis of the intertwined political, racial, and religious dynamics” in the early twentieth century Methodist Church (Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, United Theological Seminary, Dayton Ohio). In 1939, America’s three major Methodist Churches sent delegates to Kansas City, Missouri, for what they called the Uniting Conference. They formed the largest, and arguably the most powerful, Protestant church in the country. Yet this newly “unified” denomination was segregated to its core. In The Methodist Unification, Morris L. Davis examines this unification process, and how it came to institutionalize racism and segregation in unprecedented ways. Davis shows that Methodists in the early twentieth century—including high-profile African American clergy—were very much against integration. Many feared that mixing the races would lead to interracial marriages and threaten the social order of American society. The Methodist Unification illuminates the religious culture of Methodism, Methodists' self-identification as the primary carriers of “American Christian Civilization,” and their influence on the crystallization of whiteness during the Jim Crow Era as a legal category and cultural symbol.