Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
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Building upon their critically acclaimed first volume, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon's new Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 is a recovery project of enormous proportions. Houck and Dixon have again combed church archives, government documents, university libraries, and private collections in pursuit of the civil rights movement's long-buried eloquence. Their new work presents fifty new speeches and sermons delivered by both famed leaders and little-known civil rights activists, on national stages and in quiet shacks. The speeches carry novel insights into the ways in which individuals and communities utilized religious rhetoric to upset the racial status quo in divided America during the civil rights era. Houck and Dixon's work illustrates again how a movement so prominent in historical scholarship still has much to teach us.
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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
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