| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post–Civil Rights America. Ed. by R. Drew Smith. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. x, 239 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8223-3358-9.)

This book is the second part of a two-volume study directed by faculty at Morehouse College designed "to examine the relation of African American churches to American political life in the late twentieth century" (p. ix). The entire venture, known as the Public Influences of African-American Churches Project, emerged from the recognition that black churches have played somewhat different political roles since the 1960s, and those roles require further explanation through detailed interdisciplinary research. The first volume, New Day Begun (2003), focused on the relationships between black churches and the larger civic culture of the United States—how those churches shaped, and were shaped by, secular cultural currents and public agencies. Volume 2 moves in a different direction, examining especially activism in black churches with regard to those public policies after the 1960s that most directly affected the African American community. There are chapters on affirmative action; welfare reform; health care issues, including reproductive health care for women; urban public education; urban crime; and participation by black churches in anti-apartheid activism.

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