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This compromise created the racially segregated church that Methodists struggled to eliminate over the next thirty years. During the Civil Rights movement, American churches confronted issues of racism that they had previously ignored. No church experienced this confrontation more sharply than the Methodist Church. When Methodists reunited their northern and southern halves in 1939, their new church constitution created a segregated church structure that posed significant issues for Methodists during the Civil Rights movement.

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This is a carefully researched, skillfully interpreted, and provocative study that focuses on an important subject. Murray's volume is one of a small number of first-rate scholarly studies that are beginning to fill a gap in historians' knowledge about and understanding of the ways in which the United States' major religious institutions were affected by the Civil Rights Movement. - Alfred A. Moss Jr.

This is a carefully researched, skillfully interpreted, and provocative study that focuses on an important subject. Murray's volume is one of a small number of first-rate scholarly studies that are beginning to fill a gap in historians' knowledge about and understanding of the ways in which the United States' major religious institutions were affected by the Civil Rights Movement. - Alfred A. Moss Jr.

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Peter C. Murray is Professor of History at Methodist College in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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