One in Christ

When Martin Luther King, Jr. marched in Chicago in 1966, he joined black and white lay Catholics who had worked together for civil rights for more than forty years. One in Christ traces the development of Catholic interracial activism from the ground up, demonstrating that accounting for religion is crucial to understanding race and civil rights in the North.

Karen Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College in Illinois. She studies the intersection of religion and race in American history, teaches classes on the civil rights movement, race, and urban and suburban history, and works with future history teachers.

- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Black Bodies, White Church
- Chapter 2: Catholic Action vs. Black Protest
- Chapter 3: White Partners
- Chapter 4: Communism and Interracial Justice
- Chapter 5: Radical Love
- Chapter 6: Respectability
- Chapter 7: Who Is My Neighbor?
- Chapter 8:The National Movement
- Chapter 9 Conclusion: Chicago Freedom Summer, 1966