Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South
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Description
In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of the founding and development of Richmond Theological Seminary (Virginia), Central City College (Macon, Georgia), and American Baptist Theological Seminary (Nashville, Tennessee)—colleges that saw challenges, complexities, and hard-won accomplishments in the Post-Reconstruction era. Her study begins just after the Civil War, when one of these institutions provided educational opportunities for newly freed slaves, and follows the fortunes of the schools through the 1960s.
ISBN
9781621909255
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
City
Knoxville
Keywords
Richmond Theological Seminary, Baptist, Central City College, Southern states
Disciplines
Black History | Christian Denominations and Sects | United States History
Recommended Citation
Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam, "Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South" (2025). Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry Books. 4.
https://scholar.umw.edu/cpr_books/4