Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995

by Mark Newman

Book Overview

This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed Focusing on the eleven states of the old Confederacy, Getting Right with God examines the evolution of Southern Baptists' attitudes toward African Americans during a tumultuous period of change in the United States. Mark Newman not only offers an in-depth analysis of Baptist institutions from the Southern Baptist Convention...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817310606
• ISBN13: 9780817310608
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"