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Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
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Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 Hardback - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Mark Newman

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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 (SBC) and state conventions to colleges and churches but also probes beyond these by examining the response of pastors and lay people to changing race relations.

The SBC long held that legal segregation was in line with biblical teachings, but after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision in favor of desegregating public institutions, some Southern Baptists found an inconsistency in their basic beliefs. Newman identifies three major blocs of Baptist opinion about race relations: a hard-line segregationist minority that believed God had ordained slavery in the Bible; a more moderate majority that accepted the prevailing social order of racial segregation; and a progressive group of lay people, pastors, and denominational leaders who criticized and ultimately rejected discrimination as contrary to biblical teachings.

According to Newman, the efforts of the progressives to appeal to Baptists' primary commitments and the demise of de jure segregation caused many moderate and then hard-line segregationists to gradually relinquish their views, leading to the 1995 apology by the SBC for its complicity in slavery and racism. Comparing Southern Baptists with other major white denominations, Newman concludes that lay Baptists differed little from other white southerners in their response to segregation.

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  • Title Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
  • Author Mark Newman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Alabama Press
  • Publication date September 11, 2001
  • ISBN 9780817310608 / 0817310606
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.13 x 1.2 in (23.50 x 15.57 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Segregation - Religious aspects - Southern
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001001287
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.834

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Mark Newman is a reader of history at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics, and Archaeology. Newman's Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995, won the Lillian Smith Book Award for nonfiction from the Southern Regional Council, the American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American Studies, and the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize from the University of Alabama Press.

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