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Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968
With a historian's precision and a passion for social justice, Alice Knotts shows in this book how the activities of the Methodist women's movement for civil rights developed decade by decade. Their activities were rarely in the public eye, yet they were shaping and being shaped by events and public opinion.

An astute and insightful history, Fellowship of Love documents the contributions of white Methodist women in the American civil rights struggle. The research for this volume has won the Jessie Lee Prize from the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. It documents in one volume otherwise disparate information important to understanding the contributions of women in the Methodist Church to race struggles in 20th-century America.

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Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968
With a historian's precision and a passion for social justice, Alice Knotts shows in this book how the activities of the Methodist women's movement for civil rights developed decade by decade. Their activities were rarely in the public eye, yet they were shaping and being shaped by events and public opinion.

An astute and insightful history, Fellowship of Love documents the contributions of white Methodist women in the American civil rights struggle. The research for this volume has won the Jessie Lee Prize from the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. It documents in one volume otherwise disparate information important to understanding the contributions of women in the Methodist Church to race struggles in 20th-century America.

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Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968

Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968

by Alice Knotts
Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968

Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968

by Alice Knotts

Overview

With a historian's precision and a passion for social justice, Alice Knotts shows in this book how the activities of the Methodist women's movement for civil rights developed decade by decade. Their activities were rarely in the public eye, yet they were shaping and being shaped by events and public opinion.

An astute and insightful history, Fellowship of Love documents the contributions of white Methodist women in the American civil rights struggle. The research for this volume has won the Jessie Lee Prize from the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. It documents in one volume otherwise disparate information important to understanding the contributions of women in the Methodist Church to race struggles in 20th-century America.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780687027194
Publisher: Kingswood Books
Publication date: 11/01/1996
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Alice G. Knotts earned her Ph.D. from Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver. She currently works for Shalom Ministries in Portland, Oregon (1996).

Table of Contents

Abbreviations11
Preface13
Introduction17
Ch. 1Ingredients for a Civil Rights Movement: A National Church, an Autonomous Agency, and Discrimination27
Ch. 2The 1920s: Interracial Cooperation39
Ch. 3The Early 1930s: Concern for Fairness59
Ch. 4The Later 1930s: A Multifaceted Movement Emerges73
Ch. 5Interracial Leadership for The Methodist Church85
Ch. 6These Are the Women: Profiles of Woman's Division Leaders95
Ch. 7The Context of the 1940s: Social and Religious Forces Combine119
Ch. 8The Early 1940s: Toward a New Social Order139
Ch. 9The Later 1940s: Launching the Campaign to End Racial Discrimination155
Ch. 10The Context of the 1950s: Changing Attitudes177
Ch. 11The 1950s: Methodist Women Covenant to End Segregation195
Ch. 12Desegregating Society in the 1960s: Not Fast Enough Nor Far Enough!217
Ch. 13Desegregating The Methodist Church: We Must Act Together - But We Must Act!239
Ch. 14Fellowship of Love: Lessons from the Journey259
App. AReport of the Study Group on Unification of the Woman's Missionary Council, 1937265
App. BCharter of Racial Policies - 1952267
App. CA Response to Criticism of School Desegregation269
App. DStatement on School Integration, September, 1958271
App. EA Charter of Racial Policies - 1962273
Notes275
Bibliography309
Index329
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