Download or read book The Progressives' Bible written by Claudia Setzer and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive movements have rooted themselves in the Bible as much as conservative. This book examines how abolitionism, women's rights, and civil rights movements used scripture for their arguments, featuring the work of Maria Stewart, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr.