From Selma to Montgomery

One car carried Viola Liuzzo and Leroy Moton. The other carried four Klansmen. The latter pulled alongside the former on a lonely stretch of U.S. Highway 80 between Selma and Montgomery. The Klansmen fired into Liuzzo’s car, killing her instantly. Moton survived...

Southern Baptists and Race: A Historical Perspective

Southern Baptists split from Northern Baptists in 1845 when they realized that slaveholders were not going to be allowed to be missionaries. For most of Southern Baptist history, one part of the denomination’s identity was crystal clear: to be Baptist was to be...