Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

Introduction

1954

1 Simcha Kling, Proclaim Liberty

1955

2 Thomas Buford Maston, I Have Not a Demon

3 Leo A. Bergman, God Looks on Mississippi and Emmett Till

4 Clyde Gordon, A View of the Race Issue

5 Herbert M. Baumgard, Those Who Have Felt the Lash of the Taskmaster

1956

6 Charles Kenzie (C. K.) Steele, The Tallahassee Bus Protest Story

1957

7 Aubrey N. Brown, The Church in Southern United States

8 Merrimon Cuninggim, To Fashion as We Feel

9 Thurgood Marshall, The Good People Sat Down

10 Charles C. Diggs Jr., The Star Beckons Again

11 C. O. Inge, No Time for Cowards

12 Joseph A. De Laine, God Himself Fights for You

1958

13 Ralph McGill, Send Not to Know for Whom the Bell Tolls

14 William B. Silverman, We Will Not Yield

15 Harry Golden, The Struggle to End Racial Segregation in the South

16 Milton A. Galamison, Ties in Times of Tension

17 Paul L. Stagg, Here I Stand

18 Jacob M. Rothschild, And None Shall Make Them Afraid

1960

19 Edward P. Morgan, Gandhi in Greensboro

20 Thomas F. Pettigrew, Religious Leadership and the Desegregation Process

21 John W. Deschner, Christian Students and the Challenge of Our Times

22 Lillian Smith, Are We Still Buying a New World with Old Confederate Bills?

1961

23 O. Merrill Boggs, This Time of Testing

24 William B. Selah, Brotherhood

1962

25 William Sloane Coffin Jr., The Prophetic Role

26 Adam Daniel Beittel, Race Relations in Mississippi

27 Andrew Young, The Church and Citizenship Education of the Negro in the South

28 John David Maguire, The Church in Race Relations

29 Hodding Carter Jr., The Why of Mississippi

30 Alex D. Dickson Jr., The Right to a Free Pulpit

1963

31 Roy C. Clark, Coming to Grips with the Real Issue

32 Sargent Shriver, Religion and Race

33 Joachim Prinz, A Nation of Silent Onlookers

34 Milton L. Grafman, Sick at Heart: Kaddish for Bombing Victims

35 James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Thomas Kilgore, The Face of Christ

36 John Beecher, Their Blood Cries Out

37 Slater King, A Rebirth of Albany

38 William Harrison Pipes, What Would Jesus Do?

1964

39 Vincent Harding, Decade of Crisis

40 Mathew Ahmann, Race: Challenge to Religion

41 Stephen Gill Spottswood, He Being Dead Yet Speaketh

42 Leon A. Jick, Which Side Are You On?

43 Theo O. Fisher, Wearing Another Man's Shoes

44 Arthur Lelyveld, Earning the Kingdom in an Hour

45 Cecil Albert Roberts, The Christian Ethic and Segregation

1965

46 Clarence Jordan, Loving Our Enemies

47 Ralph J. Bunche, The March on Montgomery

48 Stanley Yedwab, Memorial Eulogy for Mrs. Viola Liuzzo

49 Daniel Germann, What Our Amen Means

50 Clifford J. Durr, The Relevance of Morality

Permissions Acknowledgments

Index