Abstract
As far back as 1899, in The Philadelphia Negro, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke about the and the White Church. He continued to do so throughout his long career, one that extended into the 1960s. Though he had his critiques, he largely praised the Negro Church as an adaptive institution that empowered African Americans in a racist nation. Curiously, when he attended church as an adult, Du Bois almost always attended racially/ethnically diverse ones. This was no accident. Because Du Bois held that religion was at the core of the creation of whiteness and racial inequality, he considered segregation in religious congregations to be an abomination. Segregation in houses of worship legitimated racial division by strengthening the conflation of whiteness with godliness (Blum 2007:16). He found hope in diverse congregations, beginning with his involvement in New York's Community Church in the 1940s.
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