Religion and Race

 “Alvis has admirably delineated the struggles within the PCUS as the denomination wrestled with issues of racial justice in postwar America. It is an important story, for the denomination’s ambivalence toward racial issues mirrored that of southern society as a whole.” –Journal of Southern History

"Alvis tells an important story for all who are interested in religion in the South during the years surrounding the civil rights movement. The author draws from a wide range of primary sources to trace developments with the Presbyterian Church, U.S., as this overwhelmingly white establishment denomination struggled to break out of deeply internalized racial assumptions and long held patterns of behavior." – Erskine Clarke, Columbia Theological Seminary

"This volume covers a very important denominational body in the South . . . and an important historical case study of what this denomination contributed to the development of a new relationship between the races in the South." – James H. Smylie, Union Theological Seminary