Born in Texas, Gibson, a World War I veteran, settled in Oakland in the early 1920s as a railway dining car waiter. He parlayed his earnings into real estate and then ownership of a local newspaper and magazine distributorship catering ...
Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland Robert O. Self. nia in Berkeley, community organizers from West Oakland, and a group of men and women steeped in the activist tradition of James Farmer, CORE launched uninhibited and militant ...
And what does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and democracy in the United States? American Babylon places our present political moment against a deep historical backdrop.
Their true home is with God; in civic life, they are alien citizens “in but not of the world.” In American Babylon, eminent theologian Richard John Neuhaus examines the particular truth of that ambiguity for Catholics in America today.
Their true home is with God; in civic life, they are alien citizens "in but not of the world." In American Babylon, eminent theologian Richard John Neuhaus examines the particular truth of that ambiguity for Catholics in America today.
American Babylon
Their true home is with God; in civic life, they are alien citizens ''in but not of the world.'' In American Babylon, eminent theologian Richard John Neuhaus examines the particular truth of that ambiguity for Catholics in America today.