Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie

by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf

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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 evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The authors' nuanced look at working class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252080661

ISBN13:9780252080661

Release Date:February 2015

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.5" x 9.1"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality

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