Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Black Bodies, White Church
Chapter 2: Catholic Action vs. Black Protest
Chapter 3: White Partners
Chapter 4: Communism and Interracial Justice
Chapter 5: Radical Love
Chapter 6: Respectability
Chapter 7: Who Is My Neighbor?
Chapter 8:The National Movement
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Chicago Freedom Summer, 1966

About the Author

Karen Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College in Illinois. She studies the intersection of religion and race in American history, teaches classes on the civil rights movement, race, and urban and suburban history, and works with future history teachers.

Reviews

"Johnson spotlights important but overlooked activists, for example, African American Catholic physician Arthur G. Falls, and she provides valuable insights into their work by taking their faith claims seriously and by tapping wide-ranging sources (from unpublished memoirs to the archives, in northern Ontario, of the trailblazing US Catholic racial justice group Friendship House.) ... Summing up: Recommended" -- CHOICE
"Johnson's compelling book succeeds in reconstructing a multilayered story of the energetic efforts of black and white Catholics to become one in Christ." -- Phillip Luke Sinitiere , Fides et Historia
"This book is an important contribution to several overlapping fields: Catholic history, urban history, the civil rights movement, and the history of Chicago. In light of Johnson's findings, many new questions can be raised about Catholics, race, and urban life in the 20th century. The civil rights movement is far richer and theologically deeper than is usually understood ... One in Christ proves itself an important intervention that will have lasting
effects on modern American history." -- Peter Cajka, American Catholic Studies Newsletter
"One in Christ is a valuable history. Johnson offers important insights about the place that Catholicism and Catholics had in shaping and redressing American culture and life, particularly with regards to race. The strength of her study is the manner in which she reveals and interprets the role that Catholics played in helping to craft communities of ecumenical and interreligious white allies for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s." -- Cecilia A.
Moore, Reading Religion
"Karen J. Johnson's One in Christ has it all: white versus black and white with black; Catholic versus Protestant and Catholic with Protestant; Catholic versus Catholic and Catholic with Catholic. Widely researched, analyzed with precision, and focused on the magical messiness of everyday life, this book is necessary reading for anyone interested in race, religion, and justice in the past and present."--Edward J. Blum, co-author of The Color of
Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
"Karen J. Johnson has made a remarkable contribution to scholarship on interracial civil rights activism in the Northern United States. One in Christ is balanced in its attention to clergy and laity, and innovative in its intersectional placement of religion, race, gender, sexuality, class, and place at the heart of its analysis. Rigorous and passionate in its research and presentation, One in Christ will be appreciated as a cornerstone
achievement in the history of the Catholic interracial justice movement."--Omar M. McRoberts, author of Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood
"A tour de force. One in Christ takes us into the streets and parishes of Catholic Chicago, richly exploring the much understudied work of the laity-particularly women-in shaping, defining, and acting for interracial unity and justice. In a delightfully engaging text, Johnson draws us into the messiness of human interaction for change and resistance during the long civil rights movement of the 1930s to the 1960s. Her findings and interpretations have
deep meaning for our current times. A must read for anyone wanting to understand civil rights and racial change."--Michael O. Emerson, author of Divided by Faith, United by Faith, and Transcending Racial
Barriers
"With warmheartedness and clarity, Karen J. Johnson explores conundrums about race and morality in the United States in One in Christ: Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice." -- Benjamin Ivry, America Magazine