For Human Rights Abroad, against Jim Crow at Home
The Political Mobilization of American Ecumenical Protestants in the World War II Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gene Zubovich (0000-0002-9010-4772, Gene Zubovich is a visiting scholar at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-290 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay144 |
| OpenAlex | W2902039445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In 1948, one week before the United Nations (UN) ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) asked the American public to confront the domestic implications of the global ideas found in the UN document. The FCC, founded in 1908, was the largest Protestant body in the United States, representing at midcentury nearly thirty denominations and approximately one-quarter of the American population. In 1948 the organization insisted that international human rights made Jim Crow both immoral and illegal. The FCC issued its own list of human rights, encompassing virtually every demand of the African American political struggle of the era, including freedom from police brutality and mob violence, the right to employment, the right to join a labor union, the right to receive equal services, and the right to participate fully in government institutions, including the military. These rights "cannot be obtained under a system of racial segregation," the predominantly white FCC declared. Headlines across the country pronounced, "End of Racial Segregation Asked by Churches' Council" and "Protestant Council Indorses Complete End of Segregation." An array of religious institutions—radio programs, the religious press, schools, and local churches—spread this message from coast to coast. The FCC took a firm stance in 1948 that racism within the United States was a human rights issue.1
Human rights · Political science · Politics · Population · Protestantism · Racism · Sociology · World War II · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Society, and Development
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |