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Chapter 8 "Crusader" -- on the contrast between the FBI's treatment of Martin Luther King, Jr., and "approved" Black clergy like Elder Lightfoot Solomon Micheaux

Chapter 2, "The First Battle," in which an 1865 state referendum for Black suffrage was defeated 14,651 to 12,138, "although the Republicans easily won the governorship 17,318 to 13,842 and elected their entire slate of candidates for state office." Democrat opposition to Black suffrage "is explained by the institutional racism of the Party at the time, but the explanation for Republican shortcomings is more complex"

Ch 4, on Charles H. Long; also an important endnote (n. 100) on Aquinas, and a critique/challenge to the “ressourcement” movement of theology, which has largely “utterly evaded” in “an uncritical and ahistorical manner” the “colonialist and racial side to the history” of Thomism.

Chapter 5: "The Great Migration"

"The evangelical church, with a few remarkable exceptions, remains the greatest stronghold of the sin of racism in America today.... Reflection [question] 2. How do you explain this fact?"

HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN IT?

"5. Who are the oppress in your community? What will it mean to bring liberty to these specific oppressed people?" What can your church do to help bring release to the oppressed in your community?"

Ch. 4 "Institutional Development: The Press, Church, Fraternal/Political and Social Clubs" -- including Pilgrim Baptist, Robert Hickman, and multiple early Black newspapers