RT Book
T1 The Bible told them so: how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy
T2 Oxford scholarship online
A1 Hawkins, J. Russell
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1759191523
AB 'The Bible Told Them So' explains why southern white evangelical Christians in South Carolina resisted the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Simply put, they believed the Bible told them so. Interpreting the Bible in such a way, these white Christians entered the battle against the civil rights movement certain that God was on their side. Ultimately, the civil rights movement triumphed in the 1960s and, with its success, fundamentally transformed American society. But such a victory did little to change southern white evangelicals' theological commitment to segregation and white supremacy. Rather than abandoning their segregationist theology in the second half of the 1960s, white evangelicals turned their focus on institutions they still controlled - churches, homes, denominations, and private colleges and secondary schools - and fought on.
NO Also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2021)
SN 9780197571392
K1 Segregation : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Segregation : History : 20th century : South Carolina
K1 Christians, White : History : South Carolina
K1 Racism : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Segregation ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
K1 Segregation ; South Carolina ; History ; 20th century
K1 Christians, White ; South Carolina ; History
K1 Racism ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
K1 South Carolina ; Church history ; 20th century
K1 South Carolina ; Race relations
K1 South Carolina : Church history : 20th century
K1 South Carolina : Race relations
DO 10.1093/oso/9780197571064.001.0001