Reinhold Niebuhr against Racism

This is Ronald Stone's fifth book on his mentor and friend Reinhold Niebuhr. For the first time he analyzes all of Niebuhr's writings on race to correct the academic work of critics of Niebuhr who have ignored Niebuhr's creation of institutions fighting white supremacy in the South and who commented on Niebuhr while not reading his complete works. It also publishes the text of his work as chairman of the mayor's committee on race in the strife-torn Detroit of 1926. Stone argues that Niebuhr's wo