ABSTRACT

Reprinted from Millhands and Preachers: A Study of Gastonia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942). Liston Pope is a clergyman who has been interested and involved in many aspects of education. He has been Stark Professor of Social Ethics at Yale University since 1947 and was Dean of the Yale Divinity School between 1949 and 1962 and has taught at many other universities. In addition to Millhands and Preachers, from which this chapter is reprinted, he is also the author of The Kingdom Beyond Caste, published in 1957.