Guess Who's Coming to Church: The Chicago Defender, the Federal Council of Churches, and Rethinking Shared Faith in Interracial Religious Practice

On the cover page of the September 23, 1922, issue of the Chicago Defender, editor Robert S. Abbott announced Go-to-a-White-Church Sunday. Less than a month later, the Federal Council of Churches announced its inaugural Race Relations Sunday. Through a comparative analysis of these two events, this...

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Main Author: Stell, William (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
In: Church history
Year: 2023, Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 607-625
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