The Dramatic Financial, Societal and Racial Change in the 1900’s U.S.

Amassing more wealth was one of the features the largest religious denominations were marked by, and the economic, cultural and social changes brought by the 20th century facilitated this. Moreover, by the 1930s the white Baptist churches had twice as few members as the black Baptists, which is an interesting fact to note. The major denominations continued to thrive and their revenues and members increased, as no significant damage was done to them by the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Great Depression and later on World War II brought a number of significant changes, one of which affected significantly both whites and blacks – it was the twilights of the sharecropping system, whose impact on the nation’s social system can be said to be revolutionary. It is important to realize that both blacks and whites called for termination to racial injustice, as the horrors of World War II only worsened the tragedy arising from racial hatred. The fight for end of segregation would necessitate a lot of learned people, and in Atlanta, for example more and more African-Americans sought the services of Atlanta Translation companies, who would instruct them into the art of communicating with counterparts from foreign countries.

The social order specifically designed by God could be maintained by both rivals and supporters of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, which started and later shaped up as a religious movement. As this was not enough, in the middle of the 20th century the white and the black churches failed to provide the moral leadership that would strengthen their positions. This happened in a time when America was at a moral crossroads. Eventually, after lots of blood was shed and terror was exercised the days of racial injustice seemed to have ended as the principle of Christian equality won. Even though, as it has already been pointed out, the evangelical Protestants were the largest religious group, there was also room for other non-evangelical beliefs as some of the most notable denominations were those of the Muslims, Catholics, Mormons and Jews. This was the result of the large waves of immigrants entering the country and as most of them came from Europe, New York was the place where they first set foot on the American continent. The newly-arrived immigrants had difficulties integrating in the new social and cultural environment, so the Chicago Translation Unions offered the people who could best help them and they were always readily available. Logically, those immigrants brought with them their religion and some of the larger groups were Catholic and Jewish. And even though these two groups were often persecuted, their religion helped them overcome their status of outsiders.

The movement of Mormons was a non-conformist one but they were not able to challenge the existing racial traditions. There was some African-American interest in Islam and a Nation of Islam group was formed in Houston in the 1960s. This meant the members of the movements had to teach their counterparts the most important Islamic works, including the Koran, so the Houston Translation Servicess Division had a hectic time back them. There has been a great expansion of the fundamentalist churches since the 1970s, and the cultural, economic and social changes played a major role in the process. The beginning of the 21st century still sees evangelical Christianity as the dominating religion in the nation, even though the other churches have inspired a number of important debates over public prayer at school, homosexuality and abortion.