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The last segregated hour : the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation /
Throughout the South, the Civil Rights Movement inched along over a period of years, making segregated facilities and discriminatory practices the focus of attention and conflict. In this book, Haynes brings to life a dramatic, yet little studied tactic adopted by protesters in the struggle.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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
- "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
- "You're 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
- "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.