Faith in black power : religion, race, and resistance in Cairo, Illinois /
"In 1969, nineteen-year-old Robert Hunt was found dead in the Cairo, Illinois, police station. The white authorities ruled the death a suicide, but many members of the African American community believed that Hunt had been murdered--a sentiment that sparked rebellions and protests across the ci...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2017]
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Colección: | Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On Jordan's banks: the origins of community, faith, and struggle in Cairo
- Redemptive love, vigilante terror, and rebellion: cairo in the civil rights cauldron
- From the seminary to the streets: grassroots black theology and the forging of a united front
- Straight from the offering plate: church resources and the new black power coalition
- The recession of national spirit: the decline of the Cairo black power movement
- Conclusion.