Abstract
This chapter explores the events following Charles Golden and James Matthews' visit to Galloway Memorial Methodist Church. The two knew that white Jackson churches had systematically rejected integrated parties that came to visit. Golden and Matthews expected a welcome and believed the Galloway congregation would respond in terms of faith, but the two bishops underestimated Mississippians' preferences for tradition—they were turned away. The church visit campaign and the spectacles it created complicate the understanding of the relationship between moral suasion and civil rights victories. On the one hand, it moved America's largest Protestant bodies to declare segregation and other forms of racial oppression out of keeping with the tenets of Christianity. On the other hand, endorsements of human and racial equality at the national level made little difference in local churches and in ordinary lives.
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