Early evangelical responses to civil rights were divided along left and fundamentalist lines

Evidence

It is easily forgotten, but some evangelicals—especially those who would come to constitute the “evangelical Left”—were vocal supporters of civil rights. Others, primarily fundamentalists and southerners, were staunch opponents. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 88

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forced desegregation of Christian schools, not abortion, sparked the Christian Right — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 530; American evangelicalism was politically reformist long before it aligned with the right — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 41