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Prominent at the same time as Washington were white evangelists D. L. Moody and, later, Billy Sunday. It is instructive that for these northern evangelists, social reform, which had been a central characteristic of evangelical thought since the 1830s, was dropped in favor of a nearly singular emphasis on personal piety.65
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And this is the recent complaint about Billy Graham as well.
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
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