Edgar Gardner Murphy (1869–1913) was an American clergyman and author during the
Progressive Era in the United States who had a conflicted past, working to improve relations between African Americans and whites while also appeasing white nationalistsand wrote about issues faced, as well as working to improve child labor laws and public education.
Murphy was born at
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith is the third-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 89,142. It is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas–Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Are ...
, graduated from the
University of the South at Sewanee in 1889, and served as a priest of the
Episcopal Church for twelve years. After 1903, he worked exclusively in educational and social work. Murphy served as executive secretary of the
Southern Education Board, vice president of the Conference for Education in the South, organizer and secretary of the Southern Society for Consideration of Race Problems and Conditions in the South, and organizer and first secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee
The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) was a private, non-profit organization in the United States that served as a leading proponent for the national child labor reform movement. Its mission was to promote "the rights, awareness, dignity, well ...
.
[Luker, 1984.]
Books
* ''Words for the Church'' (1896)
* ''The Larger Life'' (1896)
* ''Problems of the Present South'' (1904; second edition, 1909)
* ''The Basis of Ascendency'' (1909)
* ''Up From History, The Life Of Booker T. Washington'' (2009)
See also
*
William Porcher DuBose
William Porcher DuBose (April 11, 1836 – August 18, 1918) was an American priest, author, and theologian in the Episcopal Church in the United States. After service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, in which he becam ...
References
Further reading
* Harlan, Louis R. ''Separate and unequal: Public school campaigns and racism in the southern seaboard states, 1901–1915'' (1958
online covers his roles in the Conference for Education in the South and the Southern Education Board .
*
Luker, Ralph. ''A Southern Tradition in Theology and Social Criticism, 1830–1930: The Religious Liberalism and Social Conservatism of James Warley Miles, William Porcher DuBose, and Edgar Gardner Murphy.'' (Mellen Press, 1984) , .
* White, Ronald C. "Beyond the Sacred: Edgar Gardner Murphy and a Ministry of Social Reform." ''Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church'' 49.1 (1980): 51–69
online
* Wood, Betsy. ''Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism'' (U. of Illinois Press, 2020) pp 51–83.
1869 births
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