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A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for EnvironmentalismReinhold Niebuhr During the Time of the White Compromise

A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism: Reinhold Niebuhr During the... [The story of how the theological ethicist, Reinhold Niebuhr, dealt with race during the “white compromise” (from after Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement) gives us a good picture of what will work and not work in re-directing American Prosperity toward a sustainable future. In his early years, Niebuhr argued against the Ku Klux Klan in Detroit, and supported sharecropper cooperatives in Arkansas. He guided his later ethical analysis of national and international groups by what he called “Christian realism,” which assumed that groups had limited capacity for doing good. At the height of his national status, he wrote books as though American history was the same as white history. He suggested caution in applying the Brown v. Board of Education decision to white families and after the civil rights movement had disrupted the “white compromise,” Niebuhr moved somewhat closer to Martin Luther King Jr.’s view of the “beloved community.”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Climate of Justice: An Ethical Foundation for EnvironmentalismReinhold Niebuhr During the Time of the White Compromise

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
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978-3-030-77362-5
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95 –115
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10.1007/978-3-030-77363-2_7
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[The story of how the theological ethicist, Reinhold Niebuhr, dealt with race during the “white compromise” (from after Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement) gives us a good picture of what will work and not work in re-directing American Prosperity toward a sustainable future. In his early years, Niebuhr argued against the Ku Klux Klan in Detroit, and supported sharecropper cooperatives in Arkansas. He guided his later ethical analysis of national and international groups by what he called “Christian realism,” which assumed that groups had limited capacity for doing good. At the height of his national status, he wrote books as though American history was the same as white history. He suggested caution in applying the Brown v. Board of Education decision to white families and after the civil rights movement had disrupted the “white compromise,” Niebuhr moved somewhat closer to Martin Luther King Jr.’s view of the “beloved community.”]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

Keywords: Reinhold Niebuhr; Delta Cooperative; Ku Klux Klan; The Southern Tenant Framers’ Union; Christian Realism; Racial Bigotry; Elaine massacre; Anti-lynching legislation; Moral community

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