Struggle for the soul of the postwar South : white evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie /
"In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf plumb rarely used archival sources and rich oral histories to explore the CIO's fraught encounter with the eva...
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2015
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| Series: | Working class in American history.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on Religious Terms; Introduction; 1 The Wages of the Problem South
- 2 Unrest in Zion: Southern Churches in Depression and War; 3 If You Read Your Bible: The Faith of Southern White Workers; 4 Constructing a Region of Christian Free Enterprise; 5 The Bible Speaks to Labor; 6 Ministering in Communities of Struggle; 7 Red Scares and Black Scares; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
