God's Long Summer Stories of Faith and Civil Rights

Name: God's Long Summer Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
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ISBN: 9780691130675

ISBN-10: 0691130671

ISBN-13: 9780691130675

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Charles Marsh

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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 when the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi resulted in national media attention. Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed. He weaves their voices into a gripping narrative: a Ku Klux Klansman, for example, borrows fiery language from the Bible to link attacks on…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction: With God on Our Side: Faiths in Conflict



""I'm on My Way, Praise God"": Mrs. Hamer's Fight for Freedom



High Priest of the Anti-Civil Rights Movement: The Calling of Sam Bowers



Douglas Hudgins: Theologian of the Closed Society



Inside Agitator: Ed King's Church Visits



Cleveland Sellers and the River of No Return


Conclusion: Clearburning: Fragments of a Reconciling Faith


Afterword 195 No