{"id":262,"date":"2022-05-19T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/?page_id=262"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:34:39","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/david-cline.com\/?page_id=262","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"676\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_LgDPNOWWgJecM3&#038;asin=1469664534&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h2 id=\"TwiceForgottenBook\">Twice Forgotten: AFRICAN AMERICANS and the KOREAN WAR, An Oral History<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Journalists began to call the&nbsp;Korean War&nbsp;&#8220;the&nbsp;Forgotten War&#8221;&nbsp;even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of&nbsp;African Americans&nbsp;who&nbsp;served just&nbsp;two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military.&nbsp;Twice Forgotten&nbsp;draws on oral histories of&nbsp;Black Korean War&nbsp;veterans&nbsp;to recover&nbsp;the story of&nbsp;their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated&nbsp;in fits and starts,&nbsp;and how&nbsp;veterans&#8217;&nbsp;service fits&nbsp;into the long history of the&nbsp;Black freedom struggle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection of seventy oral histories, drawn from across the country, features interviews conducted by the author and his colleagues for their American Radio Works documentary,&nbsp;Korea: The Unfinished&nbsp;War,&nbsp;which examines the conflict as experienced by the&nbsp;approximately&nbsp;600,000 Black men and women who served.&nbsp;It also includes narratives from other sources, including the&nbsp;Library of Congress&#8217;s&nbsp;visionary Veterans History Project.&nbsp;In their own voices, soldiers and sailors and flyers tell the story of what it meant, how it felt, and what it cost them to fight for the freedom abroad that&nbsp;was&nbsp;too often&nbsp;denied them at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div ><div id=\"sp-ea-277\" class=\"sp-ea-one sp-easy-accordion\" data-ex-icon=\"fa-minus\" data-col-icon=\"fa-plus\"  data-ea-active=\"ea-click\"  data-ea-mode=\"vertical\" data-preloader=\"\"><div class=\"ea-card  sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=#collapse2770 href=\"javascript:void(0)\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"ea-expand-icon fa fa-plus\"><\/i> Reviews<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse2770\" data-parent=#sp-ea-277><div class=\"ea-body\"><p>\u201cIn this exceptionally researched volume, Cline shows that the act of desegregating was far more complicated than expected\u2026Readers will appreciate the wide variety of voices represented, including various military branches as well as officers and enlisted men and women from different regions of the United States\u2026This is an essential, insightful read on an often-overlooked subject, for those interested in military history and African American history.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>Library Journal\u00a0<\/em>[Starred Review]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[An] immersive history [of] first-person accounts of Black soldiers. Richly detailed and thoughtfully presented, this is a treasure chest of insight into the Black military experience.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2013Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While many scholars acknowledge the impact of World War II and the Korean War on the civil rights movement, none have offered as comprehensive an account of Black service during the Korean conflict and Black veterans\u2019 perspectives on civil rights as Cline has here. The most gripping sections of <em>Twice Forgotten<\/em> relay the harrowing details of battles waged by Black combat veterans and years of incarceration endured by Black prisoners of war. Cline steps aside and allows veterans\u2019 voices to rise to the fore in these chapters. He intervenes more directly in chapter 7, \u201cFrom the Service to the Streets: Korean War Veterans and Social Change,\u201d which uses activists\u2019 memoirs and other sources to draw connections between military service and civil rights. This comprehensive account of Black service in Korea makes an invaluable contribution to American military historiography and scholarship on the civil rights movement.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <em>\u2013Journal of Southern History<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;African American soldiers tell their own stories in <em>Twice Forgotten<\/em>, the first work to highlight such voices in Korean-conflict literature. This book bridges African American experiences between World War II and Vietnam and offers African American men\u2019s perceptions of military integration, thereby correcting for this absence in previous literature. Cline\u2019s writing is nuanced, and throughout the work is readable. .. impeccably researched, &#8230; [and] invaluable. The voices of the men who were there give readers an authentic sense of battle and being prisoners of war; the latter experience especially is new in the literature. These men fought a dual war against bigotry, both in war and at home. This work documents their experiences in their own words.<br \/>\n<em>\u2013Southwestern Historical Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a majestic work, rigorously researched and compellingly argued. The first-person narratives of African American service members are nothing less than epic stories of struggle and survival, where the battle begins long before one even steps foot on the battlefield. Arriving at a time when military service, racial equity, and national security are once again part of the national debate, Cline\u2019s book deserves a broad audience.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013Paul Ortiz, author of\u00a0<em>An African American and Latinx History of the United States<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn outstanding and necessary book,<i>\u00a0Twice Forgotten<\/i>\u00a0makes a compelling argument for the Korean War as central to the mid-century civil rights movement. Lovely and clear, devastating and bracing, the book\u2019s oral histories capture the perennial dilemma of Black soldiers fighting for a democracy denied them and the fearsome determination of those committed to change. Cline\u2019s work offers a model for deep, compassionate, and righteous listening.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013Adriane Lentz-Smith, author of\u00a0<em>Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrawing upon extensive archival and oral history research, this book offers a nuanced view of desegregation in the military, a deep examination of the Korean War experience from the African American perspective and, finally, a connection between the experiences of African American veterans and elements of the civil rights movement in the United States that both preceded and followed the Korean War. This is an ambitious undertaking and yet also an easy and enjoyable read. It offers a rich view of a topic in tremendous need of exactly this kind of comprehensive examination.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ea-card  sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=#collapse2771 href=\"javascript:void(0)\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"ea-expand-icon fa fa-plus\"><\/i> Additional Information<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse2771\" data-parent=#sp-ea-277><div class=\"ea-body\"><p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>ASIN \u200f : \u200e B0915HR895<br \/>\nPublisher \u200f : \u200e The University of North Carolina Press<br \/>\nPublication date \u200f : \u200e December 17, 2021<br \/>\nLanguage \u200f : \u200e English<br \/>\nPrint length \u200f : \u200e 628 pages<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From Reconciliation to Revolution: The Student Interracial Ministry, Liberal Christianity, and the Civil Rights Movement\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"676\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_paR3aA4HSvlcVv&#038;asin=1469630427&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 id=\"FromReconcilliationToRevolutionBook\">From Reconciliation to Revolution:<br>The Student Interracial Ministry, Liberal Christianity, and the Civil Rights Movement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>During Easter Weekend of 1960, when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, began to be formed, another nascent organization was also coming to life at the same exact time and place. But unlike its famous cousin SNCC, the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM), composed entirely of seminary students and always student-led, was focused not just on dismantling Jim Crow but on changing the churches on issues of race. From 1960 to 1968, SIM would reach many thousands of people, would follow a journey from pastoral exchange to direct action to urban ministry and educational reform, would play important but often hidden roles behind the scenes with every major civil rights organization and leader, and overall would exemplify in myriad ways the religious principles of reconciliation underpinning much of the movement even as it found itself in the throes of revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div ><div id=\"sp-ea-279\" class=\"sp-ea-one sp-easy-accordion\" data-ex-icon=\"fa-minus\" data-col-icon=\"fa-plus\"  data-ea-active=\"ea-click\"  data-ea-mode=\"vertical\" data-preloader=\"\"><div class=\"ea-card  sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=#collapse2790 href=\"javascript:void(0)\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"ea-expand-icon fa fa-plus\"><\/i> Reviews<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse2790\" data-parent=#sp-ea-279><div class=\"ea-body\"><p>\u201cTerrific \u2026 richly detailed and beautifully textured.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<em>American Historical Review,<\/em>\u00a0February 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeticulous \u2026 timely \u2026 thoughtful\u2026.Every academic and church library should acquire this timely, important book.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<em>CHOICE<\/em>, April 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book is a gem whose glittering facets illuminate a critical episode in the historic efforts to engage the church in the battle for human dignity.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013Timothy B. Tyson, author of\u00a0<em>The Blood of Emmett Till<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCline\u2019s writing is at once moving and clear-eyed, recognizing the depth of religious commitments and framing them within a larger historical context. [It is] compelling\u2026, an astute meditation, \u2026[and] a must-read.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>Church Histor<\/em>y<em>,\u00a0<\/em>June 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareful and thorough \u2026 an important book for scholars of the 1960s and those who study American Christianity.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<em>The Journal of American History,\u00a0<\/em>December<em>\u00a0<\/em>2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportant.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<em>The Journal of Southern Religion,\u00a0<\/em>February 17, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA must-read.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<em>Reading Religion,\u00a0<\/em>American Academy of Religion, June 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fascinating story, impressively researched and well told. [The Student Interracial Ministry\u2019s] flair for boundary crossing and networking captures some of the most enduring legacies of a central moment in public religious activism. \u2026 Cline not only fills a gap in scholarship but also\u00a0harvests from the [Student Interracial Ministry]\u2019s history broader insights about religion and race in 1960s America. Well written, carefully researched, and crisply organized, Cline\u2019s book is a fine addition to civil rights scholarship.<br \/>\n\u2013<em>North Carolina Historical Review,\u00a0<\/em>August, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCline\u2019s narrative is always well contextualized [and] meticulously researched \u2026 [an] admirable achievement.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>The Journal of Southern History,\u00a0<\/em>November 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA well-written history of the Student Interracial Ministry [that] addresses a gap in the literature on civil rights and religious history.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>Journal of Religion<\/em>, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA must-read book for historians of both the black freedom struggle and of modern American religious history.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013Thomas J. Sugrue, author of\u00a0<em>Sweet Land of Liberty<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell-researched and illuminating\u2026offers a wealth of new insights into the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and to the theological debates within seminaries and the American Christian church at large. \u2026 Makes a welcome and important contribution to civil rights history and modern American religious history.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>The Sixties<\/em>, April 2017<\/p>\n<p>[A] compelling history of midcentury liberal American Christianity, \u2026 [and] an astute meditation of the capacity of theological education to address social change\u2026, Cline\u2019s book is a must-read for those who teach at American seminaries, as we now confront a changing religious landscape and endeavor to meet our students\u2019 needs in our own times of crisis.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>Church Histor<\/em>y<em>,\u00a0<\/em>June 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorians of American religion, the Christian Left, and the Civil Rights movement will find [it] both fascinating and useful.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>Alabama Review,<\/em>\u00a0July 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPulls SIM from the shadows \u2026 [and] add[s] new perspectives to the literature on the fight for equality \u2026 [by using] the avenue of religion to further scholars understanding of these struggles, the approaches to achieving change, and the work still left to do.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013<em>The Oral History Review,<\/em> Spring 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid P. Cline\u2019s terrific book restores to us the experience of young liberal Protestants who tried, in their completely earnest way, to confront some of America\u2019s demons in the 1960s. Richly detailed and beautifully textured, both in its primary focus and in the context it provides, this book gives us the story of the Student Interracial Ministry. \u2026 Cline has retrieved this group \u2018from the dustbin of history\u2019 and we can be thankful. Wonderful chapter length studies. The recent historiographic trend in studies of antiracist work, which has emphasized tendencies toward economic struggle,revolutionary politics, and armed self-defense, has marginalized people of faith committed to social reconciliation and has made them seem na\u0131ve and ideologically inadequate. There are reasons for this, some of them good. However, at a time when calls to \u201ccheck your privilege\u201d echo rapidly in American culture, the stories of individuals who went farther than most in confronting social hierarchies in both structural and highly personal forms command respectful attention.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Doug Rossinow,\u00a0<em>American Historical Review<\/em>, February 2018<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFrom Reconciliation to Revolution<\/em>\u00a0is an important addition to our understanding of the civil rights movement and the connections between it and liberal Christianity. This book also moves beyond an emphasis on the South, which characterizes many works on the civil rights movement. \u2026 Also, notably, Cline renders SIM in very personal terms. Indeed, he successfully incorporates a wide variety of voices, including whites and African Americans, from both male and female participants. This study, in fact, depends heavily on oral histories as a source base, and the author completed dozens of these in his research and consulted others to tell this story. These, along with the records of SIM at Union\u2019s Burke Library, help him to create a lively and interesting read.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0<em>The Journal of Southern Religion,\u00a0<\/em>February 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCline\u2019s study of the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) is both a meticulous institutional history of a lesser-known civil rights organization and a timely and thoughtful examination of the church\u2019s role in confronting injustice. The first half of the book traces SIM\u2019s founding, a product of the same 1960 Shaw University gathering that birthed the far more famous Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The seminarians who made up SIM\u2019s founders and first members promoted racial reconciliation in the churches as a vehicle for religious revolution. They sent young white clergy into black churches in the South, and even some black clergy into white southern churches in an effort to change racial attitudes at the congregational and community levels. But both their work to build religious community and their ongoing engagement with the broader civil rights movement prompted SIM members to push beyond interracialism, first through the work of Southwest Georgia Project activist Charles Sherrod, and then through ongoing debates about urban ministry and the need for activism that both disrupted the church and pushed beyond it. Every academic and church library should acquire this timely, important book.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 A. C. Greene,\u00a0<em>CHOICE<\/em>, April 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrawing from archival sources, interviews, and meeting minutes, Cline\u2019s skillful theological analysis illuminates how seminarians were making sense of their engagement in the church at a time of great political and religious change. Cline\u2019s writing is at once moving and clear-eyed, recognizing the depth of religious commitments and framing them within a larger historical context. Ostensibly a history of a small, student-run summer field education project, From Reconciliation to Revolution is also compelling history of midcentury liberal American Christianity. The book is an astute meditation of the capacity of theological education to address social change, depicting how SIM students pushed to discover whether American churches could live out the Christian Gospel. Cline\u2019s book is a must-read for those of us who teach at American seminaries, as we now confront a changing religious landscape and endeavor to meet our students\u2019 needs in our own times of crisis. Many of us will identify with Cline\u2019s description of the challenges faced by seminaries in the 1960s: \u2018There was not one but a series of crises\u2014 pedagogical, theological, spiritual, financial, and organizational.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013Sarah Azaransky,\u00a0<em>Church History,\u00a0<\/em>June, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSIM consistently strove to realize a new ecumenism through its networking, boundary crossing, institution building, and organization. Members believed that new thinking and acting were necessary to realizing the beloved community and racial justice. With deft organization and excellent use of scholarly literature, Cline documents these impulses and stages them elegantly in ways that parallel the broader fortunes of the American religious Left. \u2026 \u2026[Cline\u2019s] estimable book brings the group\u2019s accomplishments the attention they deserve.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Jason C. Bivins,\u00a0<em>North Carolina Historical Review,\u00a0<\/em>August, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this well-researched and illuminating book, David Cline traces the rise and fall of [the Student Interracial Ministry,] in the process casting new light on the poignant and powerful ties created across the color line as a result of religious activism, significant theological debates within and outside of seminaries, and the ever-changing connections between Christian churches, the civil rights movement, and community activism.\u00a0<em>From Reconciliation to Revolution<\/em>\u00a0offers a wealth of new insights into the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and to the theological debates within seminaries and the American Christian church at large. In doing so, it provides new depth and insights to the movement, revealing the American religious left, often forgotten in contemporary society, as an importance source of social change. Indeed, one of the real joys in this text is seeing the ways in which key figures in the movement \u2013 from [Ella] Baker to Bob Moses to [Charles] Sherrod to Stokely Carmichael to Jane Stembridge \u2013 intersected with SIM and its dedicated cohort of seminarians. Far from ancillary, SIM workers were on the ground doing work in some of the most important sites of activism, from Albany to Chicago and everywhere in between. By recalling their efforts, highlighting the hard struggles they encountered, and unpacking the religious meanings they attached to their work, Cline reinserts SIM workers into their rightful place in a pivotal decade in American history.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Gregory Kaliss,\u00a0<em>The Sixties<\/em>, April 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCline\u2019s narrative provides great insight into both the civil rights movement and the student movement as a whole. Cline has done the academy a great favor with this book, not only for his insight into SIM, but also in dealing with the role of both the National Council of Churches and Federal Council of Churches [FCC]\u00a0in the civil rights movement. The best treatment of this broader subject is James Findlay\u2019s\u00a0<em>Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 1993); however, in this volume, SIM is given only a one-page treatment. Cline\u2019s work offers another piece of the FCC\/NCC puzzle that Findlay describes. Furthermore, Cline\u2019s attention to theological education is helpful in understanding not only the role of seminaries and divinity schools in the 1960s, but also how the events of the civil rights movement and the efforts of student groups like SIM changed the face of those institutions to the present day. This book is a must-read for graduate students and professors interested in the 1960s, the civil rights movement, student movements, and theological education.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Taylor W. Dean,\u00a0<em>Reading Religion<\/em>, American Academy of Religion, June 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSIM\u2019s eight years of activism come alive in\u00a0<em>From Reconciliation to Revolution,<\/em>\u00a0which uses rich primary source research to reveal a new dimension of liberal Christianity\u2019s presence in the mid-twentieth-century crusade against Jim Crow.\u00a0Cline brings SIM\u2019s work in these \u2026 efforts to light through the use of numerous manuscript collections, periodicals, and more than thirty original interviews. \u2026 A valuable addition to civil rights movement scholarship.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Larry Omar Rivers,\u00a0<em>Louisiana History<\/em>,\u00a0Spring 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLayer[s] and reimagine[s] the civil rights movement beyond the glow of Martin Luther King Jr. and organizations like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating<br \/>\nCommittee (SNCC). From Reconciliation to Revolution explores how white Christians, working in relationship with black Christians, tried to bring the church more in line with the vision of a desegregated order. On almost every page, Cline highlights how SIM workers\u2014first students from Union and then students from other seminaries across the country\u2014participated in the formative moments of the era, whether at Shaw for the beginning of SNCC or in Albany, Georgia, working on the Albany Campaign. SIM students were in Chicago before King and SCLC arrived and, in almost every case, worked behind the scenes and without much fanfare. [Cline\u2019s handling of their \u201cunder the radar\u201d story helps shine a light on the less sensational moments that changed the decade. In the civil rights narrative, [the Albany, Georgia,] campaign registers as one of SCLC\u2019s failures. Cline alters the focus and stays on [SNCC volunteer Charles] Sherrod, who by this time had moved to Union to pursue a master of sacred theology. While there, he tapped into SIM and recruited students to Albany and what he called the Southwest Georgia Project. For more than a decade, SIM workers lived and breathed the air of Albany and the surrounding counties, putting their lives and those of their host families at risk. At a moment when SNCC leaders removed white students from leadership, Sherrod remained committed to biracial work. By 1967, the Southwest Georgia Project helped put seven black farmers on the ballot for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (p. 109). It would take several more years to get someone elected, but change was coming. \u201cThe story of the perseverance of the Albany movement after King,\u201d Cline writes, \u201cdirectly challenges the assessment that the movement there collapsed after 1962.\u201d His work on SIM students helps show why spotlighting these lesser-known stories reveals a great deal about what happened on the ground.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Douglas E. Thompson,\u00a0<em>History of Education Quarterly<\/em>, July 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did liberal Christians committed to integration adapt to the changing politics of civil rights and black power? In this enlightening history, David Cline follows seminarians and civil rights activists on the journey from Social Gospel Christianity to Black Liberation Theology. This is a must-read book for historians of both the black freedom struggle and of modern American religious history.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Thomas J. Sugrue, author of\u00a0<em>Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Student Interracial Ministry met Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s call for \u2018creative extremists\u2019 even before he uttered it. With impeccable research and compelling storytelling, David Cline traces the organization from its liberal origins in the sit-ins of 1960 through its persistent and ultimately radical efforts to transform the church toward mending the broken world. This book is a gem whose glittering facets illuminate a critical episode in the historic efforts to engage the church in the battle for human dignity.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Timothy B. Tyson, author of\u00a0<em>The Blood of Emmett Till<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA worthy read \u2026 of particular significance for those studying the role of young adults in the Civil Rights Movement [and] religion in the Civil Rights Movement. [As] a work of historical recovery aimed at unearthing SIM\u2019s hidden history, Cline\u2019s research often reminds us about the important contributions of overlooked individuals \u2026 [and as] the first scholar to fully mine the Student Interracial Ministry Papers and to tell the story of this under-appreciated group, is a reminder that there is always work to be done for historians who are willing to go into the archives the old-fashioned way. Moreover, Cline is accomplished in oral history, and his expertise in this methodology adds greatly to the book\u2019s scholarly significance. \u201d<br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0<em>Journal of African American History<\/em>, Winter 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Cline offers a powerful insight into how students of the ministry were drawn into civil rights activism as a testimony to their faith in Jesus. His story illuminates both the complexity and the conflicts of the 1960s freedom struggle.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 William H. Chafe, Duke University<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ea-card  sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=#collapse2791 href=\"javascript:void(0)\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"ea-expand-icon fa fa-plus\"><\/i> Additional Information<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse2791\" data-parent=#sp-ea-279><div class=\"ea-body\"><p>ASIN \u200f: \u200eB01EGL00NU<br \/>\nPublisher : The University of North Carolina Press<br \/>\nPublication date \u200f: September 19, 2016<br \/>\nLanguage \u200f: English<br \/>\nPrint length : 304 pages<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"676\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_kwrd2e0GYWhrie&#038;asin=1403968144&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 id=\"CreatingChoiceBook\">Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Focusing on Western Massachusetts\u2019 Pioneer Valley during the 1960s and early 1970s, Creating Choice uses the personal stories of those who sought illegal birth control and abortions \u2014 and the health care professionals, clergy members, and feminist activists who helped them \u2014 to reexamine the contentious history of reproductive rights in America in the last fifty years. Creating Choice brings together interviews with a variety of individuals\u2013 a college chaplain moved to activism after one of his students died from a botched back alley abortion and another hung herself because of an unwanted pregnancy; members of women\u2019s collectives who ferried women to abortion clinics across state lines in a kind of modern Underground Railroad; a waitress who performed over 1,500 illegal abortions in her bathtub; and the women themselves who risked their lives. By exploring the networks of health care providers, clergy members, feminist activists, and community organizers who helped provide access to services denied under state and federal laws, this work demonstrates the complexity and nuance of the history of reproductive politics in America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div ><div id=\"sp-ea-287\" class=\"sp-ea-one sp-easy-accordion\" data-ex-icon=\"fa-minus\" data-col-icon=\"fa-plus\"  data-ea-active=\"ea-click\"  data-ea-mode=\"vertical\" data-preloader=\"\"><div class=\"ea-card  sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=#collapse2870 href=\"javascript:void(0)\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"ea-expand-icon fa fa-plus\"><\/i> Reviews<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse2870\" data-parent=#sp-ea-287><div class=\"ea-body\"><p>\u201cImpressive \u2026 a benchmark work of cooperative oral history based in a communities studies model.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Jennifer L. Ball, Clarkson University,\u00a0<em>Journal of Women\u2019s History<\/em>, Vol. 21 No. 4, 213-221.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn important collection \u2026 powerful. By recovering the participation of clergy and medical practitioners in the reproductive choice struggle, Cline reminds readers of the many kinds of people, organizations, and activities that combine to make a social movement. In addition, Cline makes an important contribution to contemporary political debates. The book challenges the political formulation that pits abortion as a path for women\u2019s liberation against the life of an unborn child. Treading delicately through this contentious issue, Cline effectively uses first person accounts, with minimal political commentary from his narrators, to establish the dangerous conditions that many women faced, along with the moral choices made by allies and activists.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Anne M. Valk, Brown University,\u00a0<em>Oral History Review<\/em>, Winter\/Spring 2008, Vol. 35 Issue 1, 110-112.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relationship of the reproductive rights movement to religion remains sadly understudied. Highly suggestive of the kind of research needed is David P. Cline\u2019s\u00a0<i>Creating Choice,\u00a0<\/i>which presented the crucial role of clerical proponents of women\u2019s reproductive rights as part of various grassroots individuals and organizations\u2019 efforts in western Massachusetts. Through extensive interviews, Cline revealed the efforts of Protestant and Jewish clergy as well as doctors and nurses, feminist lay abortion counselors and numerous other activists to provide contraceptives and enable abortion. Strikingly, Cline\u2019s inclusion of the role of pro\u2010abortion clergy subverted the widespread assumption that pro\u2010choice activists rooted their arguments solely in secular concepts and language.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Joyce Berkman,\u00a0<em>History Compass<\/em>,\u00a0Vol. 9, Issue 5, 2011<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCline\u2019s choice of location and subject matter, as well as his careful editorial process, offers readers a snapshot of how America dealt with issues of birth control and abortion during a time when access was almost universally denied to women. Each story is unique and carries with it great weight. Of particular interest is Cline\u2019s inclusion of clerical involvement with women seeking abortion. These oral histories from various members of the clergy shed new light on the fight for women\u2019s legal and safe access to reproductive health care. Creating Choice is a fast, but by no means an insignificant, read. Cline\u2019s work certainly makes the decades before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal come alive. This is particularly important since our new generation of American women has never known a life where abortion or access to birth control was illegal.<br \/>\n\u2014 Grace Tulare,\u00a0<em>Women\u2019s Studies<\/em>, Volume 36, Issue\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=g770539600\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=g770539600%22%20%5Ct%20%22_top\">2\u00a0<\/a>(March 2007), 129 \u2013 135.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A] rich array of voices \u2026 allows us rich insights into the individuals involved, compelling. Creating Choice is a highly readable and thought-provoking book for those interested in the history of reproductive choice and provision.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Gayle Davis, University of Edinburgh,\u00a0<em>Medical History<\/em>, April 2009, Vol. 53 No. 2, 303-304.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Cline has assembled an amazingly rich repository of testimonies. This work is a major contribution to the project of preserving and disseminating the histories of activism, feminism, and reproductive politics in the United States.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2013 Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (New York University Press, 2005) and other books<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this rich collection of interviews, David Cline illuminates the courage, pain and determination of those who dared to break laws that banned abortions and chose instead to create communities that embraced choice.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, Duke University<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Cline has written an extremely moving and fascinating account of one community\u2019s response to the reproductive health care needs of women in the era before Roe v Wade. Cline\u2019s book is most timely, as the hard won victories of the past-for access to birth control as well as to abortion care-are once again in jeopardy.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Carole Joffe, author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v Wade (Beacon Press, 1995)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA powerful document of the history of abortion, Creating Choice is wonderfully accessible, an important collection for anybody trying to understand the history of women and sexuality.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Johanna Schoen, University of Iowa, author of Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn urgent and moving account of the multiple sources of change that brought about the spectacular-and now imperiled-expansion of women\u2019s reproductive rights. Through an exemplary use of oral history interviews, David Cline has uncovered the \u201camazing web\u201d of ministers, doctors, and feminists who provided support for women seeking access to birth control and abortion in the years before Roe v Wade. Until now, such local stories have been repressed and forgotten, distorting history and severing the struggle for women\u2019s rights from the larger project of human progress and freedom.<br \/>\n\u2013 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Spruill Professor of History and Director of the Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ea-card  sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=#collapse2871 href=\"javascript:void(0)\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><i class=\"ea-expand-icon fa fa-plus\"><\/i> Additional Information<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse2871\" data-parent=#sp-ea-287><div class=\"ea-body\"><p>ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e\u00a01403968144<br \/>\nISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e\u00a0978-1403968142<br \/>\nPublisher \u200f : \u200ePalgrave Macmillan<br \/>\nPublication date : February 8, 2008<br \/>\nLanguage \u200f: English<br \/>\nPrint length\u200f : \u200e304 pages<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice Forgotten: AFRICAN AMERICANS and the KOREAN WAR, An Oral History Journalists began to call the&nbsp;Korean War&nbsp;&#8220;the&nbsp;Forgotten War&#8221;&nbsp;even before it ended. 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