... reaction against growing liberalism in religion started in 1800. It began on the southern frontier and soon rolled into the northeast cities. The Second Great Awakening surged across the land. It affected even more people than the First Great Awakening did. It was one of the most momentous episodes in the history of American religion. The Second Great awakening converted souls, many shattered and reorganized churches, and numerous new sects. Methodists ... their problems on bad habits. Sometimes reformers applied conventional virtue to refurbishing an older order. Most reformers were in...

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... and of itself tacitly implied racial inferiority and, furthermore, that such systems could never be equal in any realistic way. The school board argued otherwise. "The request for an injunction put the court in a difficult decision. On the one hand, the judges agreed with the expert witnesses; in their decision, they wrote: "Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental ... century. "Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is req...

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