University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2001 "To End This Day of Strife": Churchwomen and the Campaign for Integration, 1920-1970 Janine Marie Denomme University of Pennsylvania Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the American Politics Commons, American Studies Commons, Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Cultural History Commons, History of Religion Commons, Other Religion Commons, Political History Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Denomme, Janine Marie, ""To End This Day of Strife": Churchwomen and the Campaign for Integration, 1920-1970" (2001). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. Paper 1536. This dissertation was received through the American Civilization department, which no longer exists. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/1536 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. "To End This Day of Strife": Churchwomen and the Campaign for Integration, 1920-1970 Abstract "'To End This Day of Strife': Churchwomen and the Campaign for Integration, 1920-1970," explores the development and significance of a race relations agenda within a national interdenominational and interracial organization of women, known today as Church Women United (CWU). This project examines the role the organization played in the expansion of a moral language of race that reached across region, race and denomination. The eysk to this expansion were twofold: First, the participation of African American churchwomen in the organization from its beginnings stimulated dialogue and action; and second, the missionary legacy of white churchwomen, which, despite its initial imperialist assumptions, introduced churchwomen to a religious idiom and intellectual experience that embraced cultural diversity.