Mississippi Praying
Title | Mississippi Praying PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Renée Dupont |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2015-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1479823511 |
Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Mississippians’ intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality. During the civil rights movement and since, it has perplexed many Americans that unabashedly Christian Mississippi could also unapologetically oppress its black population. Yet, as Carolyn Renée Dupont richly details, white southerners’ evangelical religion gave them no conceptual tools for understanding segregation as a moral evil, and many believed that God had ordained the racial hierarchy. Challenging previous scholarship that depicts southern religious support for segregation as weak, Dupont shows how people of faith in Mississippi rejected the religious argument for black equality and actively supported the effort to thwart the civil rights movement. At the same time, faith motivated a small number of white Mississippians to challenge the methods and tactics of do-or-die segregationists. Racial turmoil profoundly destabilized Mississippi’s religious communities and turned them into battlegrounds over the issue of black equality. Though Mississippi’s evangelicals lost the battle to preserve segregation, they won important struggles to preserve the theology that had sustained the racial hierarchy. Ultimately, this history sheds light on the eventual rise of the religious right by elaborating the connections between the pre- and post-civil rights South.
Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, Praying Congress to Enable the State to Open a Canal Through the Bar at East Pass, Mouth of Pascagoula River ...
Title | Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, Praying Congress to Enable the State to Open a Canal Through the Bar at East Pass, Mouth of Pascagoula River ... PDF eBook |
Author | Mississippi. Legislature |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 86 |
Release | 1826 |
Genre | Pascagoula River (Miss.) |
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Memorial of the Mississippi Convention, Praying an Extension of the Limits of that State, December 17, 1817
Title | Memorial of the Mississippi Convention, Praying an Extension of the Limits of that State, December 17, 1817 PDF eBook |
Author | Mississippi. Constitutional Convention |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 12 |
Release | 1817 |
Genre | Alabama |
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Memorial of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory, Praying Admission as a State Into the Union
Title | Memorial of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory, Praying Admission as a State Into the Union PDF eBook |
Author | Mississippi. General Assembly |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 12 |
Release | 1811 |
Genre | Mississippi |
ISBN |
Called to the Fire
Title | Called to the Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Chet Bush |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1426759924 |
This is the true story of Dr. Charles Johnson, an African American preacher who went to Mississippi in 1961 during the summer of the Freedom Rides. Fresh out of Bible School Johnson hesitantly followed his call to pastor in Mississippi, a hotbed for race relations during the early 1960’s. Unwittingly thrust into the heart of a national tragedy, the murder of three Civil Rights activists, he overcame fear and adversity to become a leader in the Civil Rights movement. As a key African American witness to take the stand in the trial famously dubbed the “Mississippi Burning” case by the FBI, Charles Johnson played a key role for the Federal Justice Department, offering clarity to the event that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This story of love, conviction, adversity, and redemption climaxes with a shocking encounter between Charles and one of the murderers. The reader will be riveted to the details of a gracious life in pursuit of the call of God from the pulpit to the streets, and ultimately into the courtroom.
Memorial of the Mississippi Convention, Praying an Extension of the Limits of that State
Title | Memorial of the Mississippi Convention, Praying an Extension of the Limits of that State PDF eBook |
Author | Mississippi. Constitutional Convention |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1817 |
Genre | Alabama |
ISBN |
Minutes of the ... Session of the Mississippi Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
Title | Minutes of the ... Session of the Mississippi Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church PDF eBook |
Author | Methodist Protestant Church (U.S. : 1830-1939). Mississippi Conference |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 642 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Methodist Church |
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