Author Explores Preacher Father’s Silence On Racial Injustice In 1960s Alabama

Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, by John Archibald

After Pulitzer Prize-winner John Archibald read sermons from his father’s time as a Methodist preacher, he went on a quest to find out why his dad, a devout man, didn’t speak out publicly on racism.

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After Pulitzer Prize-winner John Archibald read sermons from his father’s time as a Methodist preacher, he went on a quest to find out why his dad, a devout man, didn’t speak out publicly on racism.