One Mississippi, two Mississippi : Methodists, murder, and the struggle for racial justice in Neshoba County / Carol V.R. George.
Links the history of the United Methodist Church, a denomination important to blacks and whites, and the Mt. Zion Methodist Church, where three murdered civil rights workers were registering voters in 1964, to the halting progress towards racial justice in Mississippi.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: | xii, 298 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
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Contents:
- History and memory : settling Longdale, Mississippi, and Mt. Zion Methodist Church. As we remembered Zion, 1833-1890 ; Mt. Zion Church and its memories, 1878 on ; "I was never scared" : Mt. Zion in the Jim Crow years, 1890-1954
- The great anomaly : the Methodist Episcopal Church and its black members. Sanctified segregation : black Methodists and the Central Jurisdiction, 1920-1940 ; The segregationist insurgency and the politicization of Mississippi Methodism, 1940-1954
- In the aftermath of Brown : the racial struggle inside the Mississippi Methodist Church, 1954-1964 ; "Segregation is not unchristian" : Methodists debate desegregation, 1956-1964 ; Remembering the Neshoba murders, 1963-1964
- Mt. Zion's witness : creating memories. Morality and memory in Neshoba in the sixties ; Truth and tradition in Neshoba County, 1964-1967 ; The struggle for inclusive schools and churches, 1964-1974 ; "A tight little town" tackles its future, 1980-2000 ; Addressing unfinished business : the Philadelphia coalition ; The contested past : black justice and the Killen trial ; Epilogue : the importance of remembering.