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

Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) Contents "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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index Notes Print version record Subject Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century Black people -- Segregation -- United States RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Black people -- Segregation Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Kirche Rassentrennung Protest Bürgerrechtsbewegung SUBJECT Memphis (Tenn.) -- Church history -- 20th century Southern States -- Church history -- 20th century United States -- Church history -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139929 Subject Southern States Tennessee -- Memphis United States Memphis, Tenn. USA -- Südstaaten Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199875306 0199875308 128360440X 9781283604406

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