As these writers grappled with the changes modern culture presented, they often took to their editorial pages to express their concern with the direction American society had taken. Those concerns, at first blush, very closely resemble the concerns white fundamentalists expressed about the world around them, but black denominational papers had different motives. Keeping African Americans on the straight and narrow was part of the tradition of uplift in black society, and when black denominational papers expressed their reservations about social changes, they did so using the lenses of race,
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