Description: "This book examines the FCC's anti-racist religious projects and pronouncements from the 1920s to 1950 and demonstrates that ecumenical Protestants exercised significant cultural capital and legitimacy in the political, social, and religious realm before the emergence of the Christian Right"--
Brief description: Curtis J. Evans is Associate Professor of American Religions and the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of The Burden of Black Religion.
Review Quotes: "An important addition to the field, both for its scholarly significance and its contemporary relevance. This history has never been laid out in such a manner. . . . It's a book the field has been waiting for, and that it needs."--Matthew S. Hedstrom, University of Virginia