2. “Hush harbors” or “brush arbors” refer to the secret gathering places of enslaved Africans, as they would come together to worship God in spirit and truth outside of the watchful eye of white supremacist surveillance. 3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, vol. 8 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010), 514–15. 4. Rita Simon and Mohamed Alaa Abdel Moneim, Public Opinion in the United States (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009), 13; Hazel Gaudet Erskine, “The Polls: Race Relations,” Public Opinion Quarterly 26, no. 1 (1962), 139.
