Some whites did indeed participate in Civil Rights marches, freedom rides, and the like, but they were rarely evangelical Christians. Rather, they were northern liberal Christians, Catholics, Jews, and non-Christians. Southern evangelicals generally sided against black evangelicals on the segregation issue, and northern evangelicals seemed more preoccupied with other issues—such as evangelism, and fighting communism and theological liberalism. In fact, when we reviewed a central periodical of evangelicals, Christianity Today, from its founding in 1957 to 1965, we found, on average, less than
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