Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965

Publication Data

• Title Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965
• Contributors Davis W. Houck, David E. Dixon
• Publisher Baylor University Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Waco, Tex.
• Language English

Contents

[cont.] The myth, the movement / James McBride Dabbs
The two way barrier / Duncan Howlett
As if in a foreign country / David G. Colwell
Division of home missions / Robert W. Spike
Danville Christian Progressive Association / Lawrence Campbell
Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally / Ella Josephine Baker
A Methodist pastor and race relations / Edward W. Harris
Countdown on human worth / L. Wilson Kilgore
Report from the South / Duncan Howlett
Christian response to racial revolution / James McBride Dabbs
Deep are the roots / Mildred Bell Johnson
Love and race relations / Ralph David Abernathy
The national civil rights crises / Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Some points / Thomas Merton
Address to the 55th annual NAACP convention / Robert W. Spike
The long, hot summer / Albert D'Orlando
Address at Medgar Evers memorial service / Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Sermon at Deering Community Church / Robert W. Spike
Funeral service for James Chaney / Dave Dennis and Edwin King
Untitled speech / Fannie Lou Hamer
Moral dimensions / Theodore M. Hesburgh
Civil rights and Christian duties / Robert J. McCracken
The misfits / Kelly Miller Smith
Religious panel, February 20, 1965 / Civil Rights Hearings
Jews, justice and liberalism / Charles F. Wittenstein
Report from Alabama and Mississippi / Duncan Howlett
In memoriam : James Reeb / Albert D'Orlando
Eulogy at memorial service for James Reeb / Roy Wilkins
To be a man / Robert A. Reed
The moral stature of the civil rights movement / Duncan Howlett
Address / Morris B. Abram
Untitled paper read posthumously / Jonathan Daniels
Dear friends in Christ / Daniel Berrigan
A Christian movement in a revolutionary age / Ralph David Abernathy
Trek toward the dawn / Kelly Miller Smith
Some comments on race hate / Gardner C. Taylor
Civil rights from a Christian point of view / Theodore Parker Ferris.

Topics

• African Americans :: Civil rights :: History :: 20th century :: Sources
• Civil rights movements :: United States :: History :: 20th century :: Sources
• Civil rights :: Religious aspects :: Christianity :: History :: 20th century :: Sources
• Race relations :: Religious aspects :: Christianity :: History :: 20th century :: Sources
• Rhetoric :: Political aspects :: United States :: History :: 20th century :: Sources
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American
• Sermons, American
• United States :: Race relations :: History :: 20th century :: Sources
• United States

Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965. ISBN 9781932792546. Published by Baylor University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.