On the eve of the anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963, Robert P. Jones uses the story of the murder of Emmett Till as a lens for viewing US history: he writes,

"The dramatic demographic changes the country has undergone over the last twenty years—from a majority white Christian nation to one with no single majority ethno-religious group—has resurfaced a fundamental question that has never fully been resolved:"

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"Are we a divinely ordained promised land for Christians of European descent in which all others have their subservient place, or are we a pluralist democracy in which everyone stands on equal footing as citizens?"

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