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Race, women and health · Claim record

The Watchtower of 15 October 1956 answered an American Baptist Association resolution supporting segregation, held that "far from teaching segregation, the Bible condemns it", and rejected the curse of Canaan as an explanation of the position of black people, while still tracing black people to a named son of Ham, Cush.

Claim ID claim-attitudes-race-1956-canaan-curse-rejectedConcerns 15 October 1956Later reinterpretation
Later reinterpretation · 15 October 1956 Verified

The Watchtower of 15 October 1956 answered an American Baptist Association resolution supporting segregation, held that "far from teaching segregation, the Bible condemns it", and rejected the curse of Canaan as an explanation of the position of black people, while still tracing black people to a named son of Ham, Cush. The Watchtower, 15 October 1956

The organisation’s position or later explanation: The same article says the Christian "does not spend his time trying to solve all such social problems, because neither Jesus nor the apostles took such a course".

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The Watchtower, “Is God a Segregationist?”

15 October 1956 · pp.611-613 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Some people argue that the colored race was sentenced to a secondary status by Noah after the flood, in that he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham. However, the facts show that the colored race sprang not from Ham's son Canaan but from his son Cush. Therefore not even Noah's curse as recorded at Genesis 9:26, 27 can be used to argue that God is responsible for segregation. … Far from teaching segregation, the Bible condemns it.”

The article answers a 1956 resolution of the American Baptist Association which had put God on the side of segregation. It rejects each of the resolution's four points and says all the variations in human skin colour were available in the genes of the first man and woman. It also says the Christian "does not spend his time trying to solve all such social problems, because neither Jesus nor the apostles took such a course".

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Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read from the document's own HTML; the page markers read 611, 612 and 613 and the printed citation line reads "w56 10/15 pp. 611-613".

Notes. The article answers a Baptist resolution. It does not mention that The Golden Age had printed the curse-of-Canaan explanation in 1929, and it keeps the descent of black people from a named son of Ham, moving it from Canaan to Cush.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-race-w-1956-1015-god-segregationist

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