Primary Documents

  • 1973 Baptist Press news bulletin's response to Roe v. Wade pdf
  • full text of 1978 "Abortion: An Ecumenical Study Document" link
  • Abortion Counseling and Social Change from Illegal Act to Medical Practice: The Story of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion [Arlene Carmen & Howard Moody]
  • Ethics: Alternatives and Issues (1971 edition) [Norman L. Geisler]
  • Judson Memorial Church+ Supreme Court amicus brief opposing abortion restrictions pdf
  • Time, 1969: "segregation academies" link
  • The Schools that Fear Built: Segregationalist Academies in the South [Robert E. Bills & David Nevin]

Links (Many of these links cross-reference each other but they each seem to add at least a little bit of additional information)

  • Al Mohler being sad in 2014 about evangelicals' lack of opposition to abortion pre-Roe link
  • Check out the SBC's changing position on abortion link
  • The Atlantic: the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion link
  • Valerie Tarico: when god was pro-choice and why he changed his mind link
  • Fred Clark: shifts in Christian abortion politics since 1968 link
  • Fred Clark: abortion politics in bible translations link
  • Fred Clark: remember when evangelicals were pro-choice because of the bible? link
  • Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel: "Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash" pdf
  • Jill Lepore: the history of Planned Parenthood and abortion politics link
  • Alan Bean: abortion and white evangelicals link
  • Gary Younge: abortion & race politics link
  • Politico: The real (white supremacist) origins of the religious right link
  • Chris Ladd: "Pastors, Not Politicians, Turned Dixie Republican" link
  • New Republic: Jerry Falwell's political legacy link
  • The Nation: Jerry Falwell's segregationist politics link
  • Jonathan Merritt: the history of segregation at Christian schools
  • Christianity Today, 2000: BJU drops their ban on interracial dating link
  • stats on minority enrollment & graduation at Christian colleges link
  • The Atlantic, 2012: Southern segregation academies still open link
  • Southern Education Foundation: publicly-funded private school segregation link
  • Center for American Progress: racial disparity in school funding link
  • The Atlantic: a resurgence of segregation in public schools link
  • ProPublica: segregation today link
  • Journey for Justice Alliance: "Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage" pdf
  • HuffPo: NAACP vs charter schools link
  • HuffPo: charter schools vs facts link
  • The Center for Civil Rights Remedies: charter schools and the school-to-prison pipeline pdf
  • WaPo opinion: 12 problems with charter schools link
  • Alternet: the charter school movement's racist history link
  • The Center for American Progress: private school vouchers' racist history link
  • US News: tension re: school vouchers link
  • WaPo: racism in schools is pushing more black families to homeschool link
  • Journal of Black Studies: homeschooling grew in popularity in response to desegregation link
  • Homeschoolers Anonymous: White Pride Homeschooling link
  • Homeschoolers Anonymous: the whole "homeschooling and race" tag is worth reading imo link
  • Autostraddle: I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah link
  • No Longer Quivering: fundamentalist rhetoric on forced birth, birth control, abortion a response to growing Muslim population link
  • Vyckie Garrison: the goal of Quiverfull is to outbreed the "enemy" link

Books

  • Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling [Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegal] pdf
  • To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion [Doris Andrea Dirks & Patricia Relf]
  • The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service [Laura Kaplan]
  • Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics [Carol Mason]
  • Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America [Leslie Dorrough Smith]
  • The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption [Barbara Bisantz Raymond]
  • The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption [Kathryn Joyce]
  • Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 [Mary E. Odem]
  • Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence [Sara Moslener]
  • Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement [Julie Debra Neuffer]
  • The Fair Sex [Pauline E. Schloesser]
  • The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade [Ann Fessler]
  • Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade [Rickie Solinger]
  • Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard In Women’s Health And How We Can Change That [Jessica Mason Pieklo]
  • Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics [Jonathan Dudley]
  • We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics [Neil J. Young]
  • Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right [Seth Dowland]
  • Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America [Michael O. Emerson]
  • Christianity and Race in the American South: A History [Paul Harvey]
  • Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt [Christine Leigh Heyrman]
  • There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 [Jason Sokol]
  • Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy [Sheryll Cashin]
  • Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class [Ian Haney Lopez]
  • Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power [Bruce Cumings]
  • The Spiritual-Industrial Complex: America's Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War [Jonathan P. Herzog]
  • Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture [Naomi Cahn]
  • God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right [Michael Sean Winters]
  • Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America--An Evangelical's Lament [Randall Balmer] excerpt
  • The Making of Evangelicalism [Randall Balmer]
  • God's Bullies: Power, Politics and Religious Tyranny [Perry Dean Young]
  • God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right [Daniel K. Williams]
  • Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite [D. Michael Lindsay]
  • With God On Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America [William Martin]
  • The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere [Judith Butler]
  • C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy [Jeff Sharlet]
  • The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power [Jeff Sharlet]
  • American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon [Stephen Prothero]
  • The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years [Stephen P. Miller]
  • The Gospel of Self: How Jesus Joined the GOP [Terry Heaton]
  • The Authoritarian Specter [Robert Altemeyer]
  • Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism [Timothy Gloege]
  • Inside America's Christian Schools [Paul F. Parsons]
  • History Repeating Itself: The Republication of Children's Historical Literature and the Christian Right [Gregory M. Pfitzer]
  • Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement [Mitchell L. Stevens]
  • Homeschool: An American History [M. Gaither]
  • Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering [Jennifer Lois]
  • Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement [Kathryn Joyce]
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