Edgar Gardner Murphy (1869–1913) was an American clergyman and author during the
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) was a period in the United States characterized by multiple social and political reform efforts. Reformers during this era, known as progressivism in the United States, Progressives, sought to address iss ...
in the United States who had a conflicted past, working to improve relations between African Americans and whites while also appeasing white nationalists and 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 List of municipalities in Arkansas, third-most populous city in Arkansas, United States, and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County, Arkansas, Sebastian County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the pop ...
, graduated from the
University of the South
The University of the South, familiarly known as Sewanee (), is a private Episcopal liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an off ...
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 The Southern Education Board was established in 1901 as the executive branch of the Conference for Education in the South. The Conference emerged from meetings in Capon Springs, West Virginia, in, 1898–1900. Its mission was promoting public educa ...
, 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 beca ...
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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