Title: When the church bell rang racist
First published: 1998
Description: Donald E. Collins tells the story of the Alabama-West Florida Methodist Conference and its reactions to the civil rights movement. Part memoir and part historical analysis, Collins reflects on white Methodists' struggle to come to terms with their consciences in the face of racial change and the standards of Christianity's universal gospel.

With events in Alabama during the civil rights movement as backdrop, Collins tells the story of the challenge that confronted the Methodist church and its ministers during those stormy years.
Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, History, Methodist Church, Methodists, Race relations, Racism, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Racism
Places: Alabama, Florida
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: F335.N4 C65 1998