| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930–1975. By Peter C. Murray. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xxii, 266 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1514-9.)

Peter C. Murray's Methodists and the Crucible of Race joins a growing collection of scholarly works that explore race relations in American Christian denominations in the mid-twentieth century. As Murray indicates at the outset, his book is concerned mainly with the status of African Americans in the United Methodist Church and its predecessors. He concentrates, therefore, on the internal affairs of a large but predominantly white denomination, and he considers the crucial period from 1939 (when the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Church healed the sectional division of 1844) to 1968 (when the Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren to form the United Methodist Church).

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