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A Stone of Hope : Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow /

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it i...

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Autor principal: Chappell, David L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Chapter 1: Hungry liberals: their sense that something was missing
  • Chapter 2: Recovering optimists
  • Chapter 3: The prophetic ideas that made civil rights move
  • Chapter 4: Prophetic Christian realism and the 1960s generation
  • Chapter 5: The civil rights movement as a religious revival
  • Chapter 6: Broken churches, broken race: white southern religious leadership and the decline of white supremacy
  • Chapter 7: Pulpit versus Pew
  • Chapter 8: Segregationist thought in crisis: what the movement was up against
  • Conclusions: Gamaliel, Caesar and us
  • Appendix: A philosophical note on historical explanation.