A deep dive into the inner-workings of the Seventh-day Adventist church, and why you should care — hosted by Nina Vallado and Kaleb Eisele. Produced by Heather Moor.
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A deep dive into the inner-workings of the Seventh-day Adventist church, and why you should care — hosted by Nina Vallado and Kaleb Eisele. Produced by Heather Moor.
In our last episode, A Better Way - Part 1, we learned of the strong connection between Adventism and the Abolitionist movement. So it's no surprise that after the American Civil War, Adventist churches were some of the very first to integrate.
But by the 1920s, the landscape of the Adventist church was extremely segregated. The General Conference had separate cafeterias for white and black employees; Black Adventist leadership was regularly denied seats at the table where important decisions were being made; and it wasn't until 1965 that Southern Adventist University officially desegregated - ten years after Brown vs. Board of Education, and five years after six-year-old Ruby Bridges marched with police protection into an all-white school, signaling the beginning of desegregation in public schools.
How did we get from abolition to segregation?
Guests: Dr. Calvin B. Rock, Claudia Allen, Pedrito Maynard-Reid, Kevin Burton, and Michael Campbell
How the Church Works
A deep dive into the inner-workings of the Seventh-day Adventist church, and why you should care — hosted by Nina Vallado and Kaleb Eisele. Produced by Heather Moor.
