The last segregated hour : the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation / Stephen R. Haynes.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haynes, Stephen R.
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Memphis (Tenn.) > Church history > 20th century.
Southern States > Church history > 20th century.
United States > Church history > 20th century.
Segregation > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 20th century.
Black people > Segregation > United States.
Physical Description:xi, 314 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Segregation's last stronghold
  • pt. 1. The forgotten protests. "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
  • pt. 2. Contexts of a kneel-in movement. "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
  • pt. 3. Memories of a kneel-in movement. "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
  • pt. 4. Aftermath of a kneel-in movement. "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.