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The Gospel of the Working Class UI Press ~ The Gospel of the Working Class Labors Southern Prophets in New Deal America Awards and Recognition Winner of the Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association 2012 How two southern ministers preached and practiced a vision of a more democratic America

The Gospel of the Working Class Labors Southern Prophets ~ Jarod Roll teaches American history at the University of Sussex England where he directs the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South He is the author of the awardwinning Spirit of Rebellion Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South

The Gospel of the Working Class Labors Southern Prophets ~ Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and women to demand social and economic justice in the eras of the Great Depression New Deal and Second World Warx000Bx000BWilliams and Whitfield preached a workingclass gospel rooted in the American creed that hard productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living

Project MUSE The Gospel of the Working Class Labor’s ~ The Gospel of the Working Class Labor’s Southern Prophets in New Deal America by Erik S Gellman and Jarod Roll Kenneth J Heineman Erik S Gellman and Jarod Roll

The gospel of the working class labors Southern ~ The gospel of the working class labors Southern prophets in New Deal America Erik S Gellman Jarod Roll In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history Erik S Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers one black and one white who used their ministry to

The gospel of the working class labors Southern ~ The gospel of the working class labors Southern prophets in New Deal America Erik S Gellman Jarod Roll How two southern ministers preached and practiced a vision of a more democratic America

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The Gospel of the Working Class Labors Southern Prophets ~ The Working Class in American History In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history Erik S Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers one black and one white who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender race and geography

The Gospel of the Working Class Labors Southern Prophets ~ At another level The Gospel of the Working Class places Whitfield and Williamss mission in a larger context suggesting new ways to think about the New Deal era the long Civil Rights Movement labor religion southern history and protest politics By taking the ministers out the shadows on the periphery of larger events the authors help us grasp the larger significance their actions had at both a regional and national level

The Gospel of the Working Class Labors Southern Prophets ~ Williams and Whitfield preached a workingclass gospel rooted in the American creed that hard productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living Gellman and Roll detail how the two preachers galvanized thousands of farm and industrial workers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations