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020 _a0691021341 (cloth : alk. paper)
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082 0 0 _a305.8960730762
_221
_bM.C.G
100 1 _aMarsh, Charles,
_d1958-
_93094
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aGod's long summer :
_bstories of faith and civil rights /
_cCharles Marsh.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[1997]
264 4 _a©1997.
300 _ax, 276 pages, [16] pages of plates ;
_c24 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-265) and index.
505 _aAbbreviations Introduction: With God on Our Side: Faiths in Conflict3 Ch.1 "I'm on My Way, Praise God": Mrs. Hamer's Fight for Freedom10 Ch.2 High Priest of the Anti-Civil Rights Movement: The Calling of Sam Bowers 49 Ch.3 Douglas Hudgins: Theologian of the Closed Society 82 Ch.4 Inside Agitator: Ed King's Church Visits 116 Ch.5 Cleveland Sellers and the River of No Return 152 Conclusion: Clearburning: Fragments of a Reconciling Faith 192 Afterword 195 Notes 205 Acknowledgments 255 Selected Bibliography 259 Interviews 267 Index 269
520 _aIn 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 work takes us back to this place and time.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights
_zMississippi
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCivil rights movements
_zMississippi
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCivil rights
_zMississippi
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 0 _aCivil rights workers
_xReligious life
_zMississippi
_xHistory
_y20th century.
651 0 _aMississippi
_xRace relations.
_93099
651 0 _aMississippi
_xChurch history
_y20th century.
_93100
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin031/97010668.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/97010668.html
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