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Author Haynes, Stephen R.

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

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index.
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.
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Subject Memphis (Tenn.) -- Church history -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Church history -- 20th century.
Southern States.
Church history.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject United States -- Church history -- 20th century.
United States.
Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
History.
Black people -- Segregation -- United States.
Black people -- Segregation.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Haynes, Stephen R. Last segregated hour. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780195395051 (DLC) 2012003851 (OCoLC)773023514
ISBN 9780199875306 (electronic book)
0199875308 (electronic book)
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9781283604406
9780195395051
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