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[[File:Edgar Gardner Murphy (1869-1913).jpg|thumb|Edgar Gardner Murphy 1869-1913]]'''Edgar Gardner Murphy''' (1869&ndash;1913) was an American clergyman and author during the [[Progressive Era]] in the United States who worked to improve relations between African Americans and whites and wrote about issues faced, as well as working to improve child labor laws and public education.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/murphy-edgar-gardner|title=Murphy, Edgar Gardner|date=May 22, 2012|website=Episcopal Church}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Edgar Gardner Murphy |url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1183 |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Edgar Gardner Murphy (1869-1913).jpg|thumb|Edgar Gardner Murphy 1869–1913]]'''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 nationalists<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/edgar-gardner-murphy|title=Edgar Gardner Murphy|website=Edgar Gardner Murphy}}</ref>and wrote about issues faced, as well as working to improve child labor laws and public education.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/murphy-edgar-gardner|title=Murphy, Edgar Gardner|date=May 22, 2012|website=Episcopal Church}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Edgar Gardner Murphy |url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1183 |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |language=en}}</ref>


Murphy was born at [[Fort Smith, Arkansas]], graduated from the [[University of the South]] in 1889, and served as a priest of the [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|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]]. {{citation needed|date=June 2015}}
Murphy was born at [[Fort Smith, Arkansas]], graduated from the [[University of the South]] at Sewanee in 1889, and served as a priest of the [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|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]].<ref>Luker, 1984.</ref>

He contributed to periodicals.


==Books==
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* ''Problems of the Present South'' (1904; second edition, 1909)
* ''Problems of the Present South'' (1904; second edition, 1909)
* ''The Basis of Ascendency'' (1909)
* ''The Basis of Ascendency'' (1909)
* ''Up From History, The Life Of Booker T. Washington'' (2009)


==See also==
==See also==
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Harlan, Louis R. ''Separate and unequal: Public school campaigns and racism in the southern seaboard states, 1901–1915'' (1958) [https://archive.org/details/separateunequal0000loui_b8z3/page/n6/mode/1up online]; covers his roles in the Conference for Education in the South and the Southern Education Board .


* [[Ralph Luker|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) {{ISBN|0-88946-655-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-88946-655-5}}.
* [[Ralph Luker|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) {{ISBN|0-88946-655-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-88946-655-5}}.
* 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. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42973743 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.
* 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.


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Edgar Gardner Murphy 1869–1913

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 nationalists[1]and wrote about issues faced, as well as working to improve child labor laws and public education.[2][3]

Murphy was born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, 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.[4]

Books

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "Edgar Gardner Murphy". Edgar Gardner Murphy.
  2. ^ "Murphy, Edgar Gardner". Episcopal Church. May 22, 2012.
  3. ^ "Edgar Gardner Murphy". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
  4. ^ Luker, 1984.

Further reading

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  • 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) ISBN 0-88946-655-6, ISBN 978-0-88946-655-5.
  • 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.


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