A stone of hope : prophetic religion and the death of Jim Crow / David L. Chappell.

Author/creator Chappell, David L.
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Description344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
African Americans--Civil rights. --History. --20th century.
African Americans--Segregation. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights workers--Religious life. --United States. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights--United States. --Religious aspects. --Christianity. --History. --20th century.
Christianity and politics--United States. --History. --20th century.
Church and social problems--United States. --History. --20th century.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Church history. --20th century.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [293]-326) and index.
LCCN 2003017334
ISBN080782819X (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.61 .C5435 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold