BLACK RELIGION

The Negro and Christianity in the United States

(BEACON PRESS, 1964: Hardcover, $5.00; Paperback, $2.45)

"Black Religion will have to be an unpopular book. The mere segregationist will reject it out of hand. The segregationist Christian will be enraged in the presence of Washington's. convincing demonstration that segregated Christianity is a contradiction in terms and that separated white Christianity has not been and is not yet a full expression of the faith. Moderately liberal whites and white Christians will be bewildered over his argument that in-tegration is an unsatisfactory and static reso-lution. It implies that white culture and white Christianity are healthy and intact and the Negro need merely to 'fit in.' "