From the late nineteenth century to the dawn of the civil rights era, the Churches of Christ operated outside of conventional racial customs.
In Race and Restoration: Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle , Bar.
As the civil rights movement began to challenge pervasive social views about race, Church of Christ leaders and congregants found themselves in the midst of turmoil.
Many of their congregations, even deep in the South, counted whites and blacks among their numbers.
From the late nineteenth century to the dawn of the civil rights era, the Churches of Christ operated outside of conventional racial customs