Session 5: Religious Liberty & Civil Rights (Full Session)

The Civil Rights Movement mobilized religion to advance not just religious liberty rights, but all the rights and freedoms ensconced in the U.S. Constitution. In this session, learn how the Black freedom struggle could be seen as “religious freedom on its feet,” and how this expansive notion of religious liberty clashed with that advanced by J. Edgar Hoover and other proponents of Christian nationalism. Speakers: Rev. Dr. Corey D. B. Walker, Dean and Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Wake Forest University School of Divinity Dr. Lerone A. Martin, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor, Stanford University This is Session 5 of the Black Religious Liberty Curriculum (BRLC), a 12-part video series of conversations on the intersection of race, religion, and the law, featuring law professors, historians, theologians, religious studies scholars, activists, and preachers. The curriculum was created by Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project with support from the Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and the Proteus Fund’s Rights, Faith, and Democracy Collaborative. Video editing by ANKOSfilms. Watch the rest of the curriculum series, at LawRightsReligion.org/our-work/brlc