2014
DOI: 10.1007/s13644-013-0147-9
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Book Review: Carolyn Renee Dupont, Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1975

Abstract: On a picturesque Easter Sunday morning in 1964, Bishops Charles Golden, a black Mississippian, and James Matthews, his white colleague, arrived together for worship at Galloway Methodist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. As the bishops walked up the steps to enter the sanctuary, ushers informed them that the congregation's policy was not to allow African Americans to worship at Galloway. The short vignette of the turning away of interracial worshippers at a white congregation aptly illustrates white Mississippia… Show more

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