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Divine agitators : the Delta ministry and civil rights in Mississippi /
The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi--the southern state with the largest black population proportionately and with the stiffest level of white resistance. At its height the Ministry, which was headquartered in Gr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi--the southern state with the largest black population proportionately and with the stiffest level of white resistance. At its height the Ministry, which was headquartered in Greenville, had the largest field staff of any civil rights organization in the South. Active through the mid-1970s, the Ministry outlasted SNCC, CORE, and the SCLC in Mississippi, helping to fill the vacuums when these organizations fell apart or refocused their energies. This first book-length study of the Delta Ministry tells how the organization conducted literacy, citizenship, and vocational training, fostering the growth of Head Start and community-based health care and in widening the distribution of free surplus federal food and food stamps. Divine Agitators looks at many inadequately studied events across a time span that extends beyond the widely accepted end dates of the civil rights movement. It offers new insights, at the most local levels of the movement, into conflict within and between civil rights groups, the increasing subtlety of white resistance, the disengagement of the federal government, and the rise of Black Power. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 352 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes list of abbreviations, chapter notes (pages 227-314), bibliographical references (pages 315-331) , and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820340203 0820340200 0820325260 9780820325262 1283031329 9781283031325 9786613031327 6613031321 |