Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice - 9780691250830

Princeton University Press

Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial JusticeWhat Has Worked, What Hasn't, and Lessons We Can Learn\nAuthor(s): Robert Wuthnow\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691250830, 978-0691250830\nSynopsis\nThe communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty years\n\nHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? In Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice, Robert Wuthnow shows that, contrary to activists accusations of complacency, Black and White faith leaders have fought steadily for racial and social justice since the end of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Wuthnow introduces us to the communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have worked on fair housing, school desegregation, affirmative action, criminal justice, and other issu.