Abstract
This chapter examines how the congregation of All Souls Unitarian Church in Chicago fulfilled Fannie Barrier Williams' progressive vision of an intellectually stimulating, racially broad-minded, and integrated community. It begins with a background on All Souls Unitarian Church, led by minister Jenkin Lloyd Jones, and proceeds by discussing Barrier Williams' attraction to Unitarianism due in part to the movement's inclusion of women. It then considers Barrier Williams' friendship with Unitarian minister, reformer, and activist Celia Parker Woolley as well as Prudence Crandall's influence on her religious ideology. It also describes Barrier Williams' participation in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and concludes with an assessment of the controversy surrounding her attempt to join the Chicago Woman's Club, a white women's group that did not want to accept black women as members. The chapter shows that Barrier Williams' ordeal with the Chicago Woman's Club is proof that living north of Jim Crow and virulent racism did not necessarily bring about equality or acceptance.
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