When conservative evangelicals launched the Christian Right in the late 1970s, were they acting to protect the unborn by rescinding Roe v. Wade? Or were they motivated instead by a self-interested desire to protect their own racially segregated Christian schools from federal civil rights policy?
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Daniel K. Williams
Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. He is currently writing a history of Protestant Christian apologetics that is under contract with Oxford University Press.
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