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However, the SBC was capable of voicing concerns about some kinds of human suffering. In 1919, for example, the organization issued a resolution on the condition and suffering of Jews through persecutions and massacres. It resolved that “All right-thinking men, and especially Christians, should let their voice be heard for the justice, humanity, mercy, forgiveness, and love of true Christianity, as taught by the Lord Jesus Christ; therefore, be it.”28 However, the SBC was unwilling to apply these same kinds of considerations to oppose racism, Jim Crow segregation, and African Americans’ persecution.
During the 1930s and 1940s, at the height of the African American humiliation during Jim Crow segregation, the SBC issued resolutions on race that challenged unequal pay, yet it did not believe that it was necessary to pay African Americans and whites equally.29 With regard to lynching and mob violence, the SBC never endorsed efforts in the US Congress to gain approval of anti-lynching legislation, although it did denounce lynching itself.30