The last segregated hour : the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation /
Throughout the South, the Civil Rights Movement inched along over a period of years, making segregated facilities and discriminatory practices the focus of attention and conflict. In this book, Haynes brings to life a dramatic, yet little studied tactic adopted by protesters in the struggle.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Segregation's last stronghold
- "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.