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• catalog abstract "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 blacks to his "priestly calling" a middle-aged woman describes how the Gospel inspired her to rally other African Americans to fight peacefully for their dignity a SNCC worker tells of harrowing encounters with angry white mobs and his pilgrimage toward a new racial spirituality called Black Power. Through these emotionally charged stories, Marsh invites us to consider the civil rights movement anew, in terms of religion as a powerful yet protean force driving social action. The book's central figures are Fannie Lou Hamer, who "worked for Jesus" in civil rights activism Sam Bowers, the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi William Douglas Hudgins, an influential white Baptist pastor and unofficial theologian of the "closed society" Ed King, a white Methodist minister and Mississippi native who campaigned to integrate Protestant congregations and Cleveland Sellers, a SNCC staff member turned black militant. Marsh focuses on the events and religious convictions that led each person into the political upheaval of 1964. He presents an unforgettable American social landscape, one that is by turns shameful and inspiring. In conclusion, Marsh suggests that it may be possible to sift among these narratives and lay the groundwork for a new thinking about racial reconciliation and the beloved community. He maintains that the person who embraces faith's life-affirming energies will leave behind a most powerful legacy of social activism and compassion.".
• catalog contributor b10309182.
• catalog coverage "Mississippi Church history 20th century.".
• catalog coverage "Mississippi Race relations.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "He maintains that the person who embraces faith's life-affirming energies will leave behind a most powerful legacy of social activism and compassion.".
• catalog description "He weaves their voices into a gripping narrative: a Ku Klux Klansman, for example, borrows fiery language from the Bible to link attacks on blacks to his "priestly calling" a middle-aged woman describes how the Gospel inspired her to rally other African Americans to fight peacefully for their dignity a SNCC worker tells of harrowing encounters with angry white mobs and his pilgrimage toward a new racial spirituality called Black Power. Through these emotionally charged stories, Marsh invites us to consider the civil rights movement anew, in terms of religion as a powerful yet protean force driving social action. ".
• catalog description "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. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The book's central figures are Fannie Lou Hamer, who "worked for Jesus" in civil rights activism Sam Bowers, the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi William Douglas Hudgins, an influential white Baptist pastor and unofficial theologian of the "closed society" Ed King, a white Methodist minister and Mississippi native who campaigned to integrate Protestant congregations and Cleveland Sellers, a SNCC staff member turned black militant. Marsh focuses on the events and religious convictions that led each person into the political upheaval of 1964. He presents an unforgettable American social landscape, one that is by turns shameful and inspiring. In conclusion, Marsh suggests that it may be possible to sift among these narratives and lay the groundwork for a new thinking about racial reconciliation and the beloved community. ".
• catalog description "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 -- Clearburning fragments of a reconciling faith.".
• catalog extent "x, 276 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0691021341 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi Church history 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi Race relations.".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi".
• catalog subject "305.896/0730762 21".
• catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Mississippi History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights Mississippi Religious aspects Christianity.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights movements Mississippi History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights workers Religious life Mississippi History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "E185.93.M6 M26 1997".
• catalog tableOfContents "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 -- Clearburning fragments of a reconciling faith.".
• catalog title "God's long summer : stories of faith and civil rights / Charles Marsh.".
• catalog type "Church history. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".