"The papers in this volume began as part of the [1999] Annual Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium, at the University of Mississippi"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Doubtless sincere: new characters in the civil rights cast / Lauren F. Winner Civil rights movement as theological drama / Charles Marsh -- Kingdom of God and beloved community in the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Ralph E. Luker -- Beacon light and penumbra: African American gospel lyrics and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" / Keith D. Miller -- Fannie Lou Hamer: new ideas for the civil rights movement and American democracy / Linda Reed -- "Closet moderates": why white liberals failed, 1940-1970 / Tony Badger -- Struggle against equality: conservative intellectuals in the civil rights era, 1954-1975 / Richard H. King -- Jim Johnson of Arkansas: segregationist prototype / Elizabeth Jacoway -- Doubtless sincere: new characters in the civil rights cast / Lauren F. Winner
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