The Color of Compromise - Session 6 - Reconstructing White Supremacy in the Jim Crow Era
The Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby) • 15m
In the South after the Civil War, the Christian-Confederate connection was visible in public spaces and in houses of worship in their monuments, memorials, and ceremonies. The Ku Klux Klan emerged, fusing Christianity, nationalism and white supremacy into a toxic ideology of hate. Jim Crow laws, enforced with lynchings, served to poison the American legal system, with Christian churches remaining relatively silent on the matter.
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