RT Book
T1 The last segregated hour: the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation
A1 Haynes, Stephen R. 1958-
LA English
PP Oxford u.a.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/687657075
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references (p.289-305)and index
CN BR535
SN 978-0-19-539505-1
K1 Segregation : Religious aspects : Christianity : History : 20th century
K1 Blacks : Segregation : United States
K1 United States : Church history : 20th century
K1 Memphis (Tenn.) : Church history : 20th century
K1 Southern States : Church history : 20th century