Contentious Unions

“A significant work of scholarship that tells us not just about these particular places, but more importantly about the world of Black higher education in the decades before the civil rights movement .” —Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Money in the Jim Crow South , Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of the founding and development of Richmond Theological Seminary (Virgi