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Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970. BY JAMES F. FINDLAY, JR. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix + 255 pp. $35.00.
The relationship of predominantly white Protestant churches to the modern Civil Rights Movement escaped serious scholarly treatment before the appearance of this book. Beginning with 1950, when the National Council of Churches emerged and began to initiate resolutions on racial issues, James F. Findlay, Jr., examines the ways in which white Protestants supported the struggle to end racial injustice through "direct action."
Findlay focuses on two areas. First, he explores race relations in the predominantly white Protestant churches in the 1950s and 1960s. Second, he highlights the ways in which the National Council of Churches and some of its constituent denominations reasserted the Social Gospel...