Download or read book Contentious Unions written by Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2025-01-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of the founding and development of Richmond Theological Seminary (Virginia), Central City College (Macon, Georgia), and American Baptist Theological Seminary (Nashville, Tennessee)-colleges that saw challenges, complexities, and hard-won accomplishments in the Post-Reconstruction era. Her study begins just after the Civil War, when one of these institutions provided educational opportunities for newly freed slaves, and follows the fortunes of the schools through the 1960s"--