Claim: Frederick Herzog, who was an impassioned champion of civil rights, taught Christian theology at Duke until his sudden death during a faculty meeting on October 9, 1995 and wrote the first North American article by a white theologian on liberation theology in the spring of1970.
Evidence: An impassioned champion of civil rights, his academic focus was liberation theology. Herzog taught Christian theology at Duke until his sudden death during a faculty meeting on October 9, 1995. In the spring of 1970, he wrote the first North American article by a white theologian on liberation theology, following James Cone's Black Theology and Black Power published in 1969, and in 1972 his Liberation Theology was published.