Last Segregated Hour The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation

Name: Last Segregated Hour The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
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ISBN: 9780195395051

ISBN-10: 0195395050

ISBN-13: 9780195395051

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stephen R. Haynes

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Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/8/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Segregations Last Stronghold



The Forgotten Protests



"The Start of a New Movement Across the South": The First Kneel-ins, 1960



"Christ Did Not Build any Racial Walls": Church Desegregation Campaigns, 1961-65



Contexts of a Kneel-In Movement



"This Spectacle of a Church with Guarded Doors": The Memphis Campaign of 1964



"Like a Child That Had Been Unfaithful": A Church-Related College and a College-Related Church



"A Time When the Bare Souls of Men Are Revealed": Southern Presbyterians Respond



Memories of a Kneel-In Movement



"Youï¿½re Going to Have to Go Out There Yourself": Church People



"Our Presence at the Church Is Itself an Act of Worship": White Visitors



"You Will Only Know My Motivation When You Open the Door": Black Visitors



"Mama, Why Don!t They Just Let Them In?": Children



Aftermath of a Kneel-In Movement



"The Greatest Crisis in the 120-Year History of Our Church": Defiance, Intervention, and Schism



"Not the Church's Advantages, But the City's Disadvantages": Wrestling with the Past at Second Presbyterian Church



"A Season of Prayer and Corporate Repentance": Wrestling with the Past at Independent Presbyterian Church


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index