The Gospel of the Working Class by Erik S. Gellman Jarod Roll

Author:Erik S. Gellman, Jarod Roll [Erik S. Gellman, Jarod Roll]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Civil Rights, Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Science, General, Sociology of Religion
ISBN: 9780252036309
Google: 2Hwnc0xfiy8C
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011-06-28T05:37:27+00:00

4. Religion Applied

Williams relished the chance to apply the ancient definition of religion, “to bind you to something,” to Memphis workers. Through the revolutionary gospel, he hoped to stitch factory workers into CIO unions and achieve power through unity, the promise of Pentecost. Over the summer of 1940, Williams conferred with allies Harry Koger and Myles Horton about strategies for educating urban workers. In the final plan he sent to UCAPAWA head Donald Henderson, Williams recommended four staff members to run the sessions: Owen Whitfield, Zella Whitfield (to do important “womens work”), Harry Koger, and Winifred Chappell, the former faculty chair at Commonwealth College. On the banks of the Mississippi at the Inland Boatmen’s Hall, these organizers planned a ten-day leadership training school to begin on August 5.1

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