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Article: News and Views: Billy Graham on Race
- Article from:
- The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 30, 1996
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News and Views: Billy Graham on Race.
For many black Americans, Billy Graham is seen as a political foe who supports a right-wing and racially repressive agenda. It may come as a surprise that Graham was one of the first Protestant leaders to move against the sins of Jim Crow. Years before Rosa Parks' dramatic protest to integrate the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, Graham demanded an end to segregated seating at his gospel meetings. In 1957 Graham immediately went to Little Rock when President Eisenhower asked for a show of support for the federal troops dispatched to force the racial integration of Central High School. As early as 1958, he was denounced by the governor of North ...