A similar point could be said about other black women activists. Lynching was so blatantly wrong that they did not need theological imagination to show it to be so. All contended that true Christianity focused on the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” White Christianity did not even come close to fulfilling that principle. “Are these people Christians who made these laws which are robbing us of our inheritance and reducing us to slavery?” a character asked in Frances Harper’s novel Iola Leroy. “If this is Christianity I hate it and despise it. Would the most
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