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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C.O.W.S. w/ Professor J. Russell Hawkins: The Bible Told Them So #ReligionOfWhiteSupremacy
Description: The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Dr. J. Russell Hawkins. A Professor of Humanities and History at Indiana Wesleyan University, Dr. Hawkins studies theology, U.S. history and White Supremacy. He recently published a book, The Bible Told Them so: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy. Earlier version of this book did not feature the term White Supremacy. Dr. Hawkins details how for most Whites in South Carolina and beyond, their brand of Christianity said that White Jesus made the "races" separate and made the negro to serve Whites. When the 1954 Brown v. Board of education decision was...