William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937): The Southern Episcopal Bishop Who Became a Communist

After an up-by-the-bootstraps childhood in Wayne County, Ohio, William Montgomery Brown found a patron in Mary Scranton Bradford, a wealthy Cleveland widow, who paid for his training in the Episcopal Church and, after he married her daughter, provided the financial support that gave him the time to...

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Published in:Journal of Southern History 2008, Vol.74 (4), p.995-995
Main Author: Bolton, S. Charles
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Communism
Episcopal churches
Religion
Whites
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Summary:After an up-by-the-bootstraps childhood in Wayne County, Ohio, William Montgomery Brown found a patron in Mary Scranton Bradford, a wealthy Cleveland widow, who paid for his training in the Episcopal Church and, after he married her daughter, provided the financial support that gave him the time to write books and the security to make them controversial. Living in the South, he published The Crucial Race Question; or, Where and How Shall the Color Line Be Drawn (Little Rock, 1907), which claimed that African Americans were inferior to whites but should still become Episcopalians, worshipping in segregated churches.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.2307/27650365