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Anderson, Alan Brauer was born on December 4, 1934 in Oklahoma City. Son of Homer Spaulding and Margaret Frances (Brauer) Anderson.
( In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George...)
In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George Pickering examine the hopes and strategies, the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. The scene of a protracted local struggle to force equality in education and open housing for blacks, the city also became the focus of national attention in the summer of 1966 as Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference challenged the entrenched political machine of Mayor Richard J. Daley. The failure of King's campaign--a failure he would not live to redeem--marked the final unsuccessful attempt to secure significant social change in Chicago, and soon afterward the national civil rights movement itself would unravel amid white backlash and cries of black power. Picking up the threads of our own recent history, Confronting the Color Line examines a political movement that remains unfinished, a dilemma for America's system of democratic social change that remains unsolved.
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Anderson, Alan Brauer was born on December 4, 1934 in Oklahoma City. Son of Homer Spaulding and Margaret Frances (Brauer) Anderson.
Bachelor, Knox College, 1956; Bachelor's Degree, University of Chicago, 1959; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1975.
Instructor, then assistant professor Division School, University Chicago, 1966-1975. Professor interdisciplinary studies Wilberforce (Ohio) University, 1976-1978. Head department religious studies University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1978-1983.
Head department philosophy and religion Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, since 1985.
( In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George...)
Member American Academy Religion (chairman ethics section 1983-1986, board directors 1983-1988), Southeastern American Academy Religion (secretary-treasurer 1983-1988), Society Christian Ethics (board directors 1984-1986, editor annual 1985-1986), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Deborah H. Nelson, August 11, 1956 (divorced 1976). Children: Amy Elizabeth, Margaret Hunt. Married Gwyneth B. Davis, April 22, 1978 (deceased 1988).