God's Long Summer : : Stories of Faith and Civil Rights / / Charles Marsh.
In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This was the summer when violence against blacks increased at an alarming rate and wh...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 16 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE 2008 EDITION
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION. With God on Our Side: Faiths in Conflict
- CHAPTER ONE. "I'm on My Way, Praise God": Mrs. Hamer's Fight for Freedom
- CHAPTER TWO. High Priest of the Anti-Civil Rights Movement: The Calling of Sam Bowers
- CHAPTER THREE. Douglas Hudgins: Theologian of the Closed Society
- CHAPTER FOUR. Inside Agitator: Ed King's Church Visits
- CHAPTER FIVE. Cleveland Sellers and the River of No Return
- CONCLUSION. Clearburning: Fragments of a Reconciling Faith
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INTERVIEWS
- INDEX