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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pimblott, Kerry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
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.