Author: Brown, The Rt. Rev. William Montgomery, D.D., Bishop of Arkansas.
Title: The Crucial Race Question: Or Where and How Shall the Color Line Be Drawn.
Description: Little Rock, AR: The Arkansas Churchman's Publishing Co. 1907. 1907. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a pictorial label mounted on the front cover. The binding is rubbed, bumped & dampstained. xxxvi & 323 pages plus a 6-page publisher's ad. The bottom edge is dampstained & the pages, though clean & bright, are slightly bubbled from humidity. There is a chip out of the rear endpaper. Ex-library with remnants of library labels on the front pastedown & endpaper and an ink notation on the first page of the text.Good reading copy.

Second edition.

A pro-segregation book. At the 1906 session of the Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Arkansas, it was resolved "that the plan of the Bishop of the Diocese looking to the creation of an autonomous Afro-American Church, be and hereby is approved." The Bishop believed that religion was the only realm in which African Americans could achieve the self-government which, he writes, is essential to solving the race question. He sets out to answer the criticisms of his plan from various quarters and also specifies where the "color line" should be drawn in all areas of American life.

The publisher's lengthy ad is for the Bishop's previous book "The Church for Americans". Fair .

Keywords: AMERICANA; AMERICAN SOUTH; BLACK STUDIES; AFRICAN AMERICANS; RACE; SEGREGATION;WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN, BISHOP OF ARKANSAS; PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH; THE CRUCIAL RACE QUESTION: OR WHERE AND HOW SHALL THE COLOR LINE BE DRAWN; RACISM; CIVIL RIGHTS.

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