Sunday School Union, n.d. [1949]. Making the Gospel Plain: The Writings of Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom. Anthony Pinn, editor. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999. Further reading Cornelius L. Bynum, "'An Equal Chance in the Race for Life': Reverdy C. Ransom, Socialism, and the Social Gospel Movement, 1890-1920," Journal of African American History, vol. 93, no. 1 (2008), pp. 1–20. Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson, The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2003. David Lewis, W.E.B. Dubois, Biography of a Race. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. Calvin S. Morris, Reverdy C. Ransom: Black Advocate of the Social Gospel. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990. External links Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Reverdy C. Ransom collection, 1936-1975 1861 births 1959 deaths American socialists Activists for African-American civil rights American Methodist bishops American Christian socialists American religious leaders Oberlin College alumni People from Flushing, Ohio Methodist socialists People from Wilberforce, Ohio