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Author:

Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium (25th : 1999 : University of Mississippi)

Title:

The role of ideas in the civil rights South : essays / by Tony Badger ... [et al.] ; edited by Ted Ownby.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xiii, 219 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Philosophy.--Southern States--Philosophy.
African Americans--Southern States--Intellectual life--20th century.
Civil rights workers--Southern States--Intellectual life--20th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--Race relations.
Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-

Other Authors:

Badger, Anthony J.
Ownby, Ted.

Notes:

"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

ISBN:

9781578064670 (alk. paper)
1578064678 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48056024

LCCN:

2001046781

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)