While white evangelicals tended to see the 1960s as an age of chaos and moral decline, Pannell remembered “those great years when democracy crept up on this country, led by a black Baptist preacher from the Deep South.”105 Black evangelicals’ claims about a gospel that “has something to do with justice” added to their reputation as troublemakers. Their priorities disrupted the logic of what Clarence Hilliard called theological whiteness. Obvious signs of disunity and growing black evangelical impatience—combined with colorblind Christians’ discomfort with both—would lead to a new movement of
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