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In the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This book focuses on the events and religious convictions that led each person in the political upheaval of 1964 to believe as he or she did. 24 illustrations.

Charles Marsh, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia.

ABBREVIATIONS

xi

INTRODUCTION With God on Our Side: Faiths in Conflict

3

(7)

CHAPTER ONE "I'm on My Way, Praise God": Mrs. Hamer's Fight for Freedom

10

(39)

Sticking with Civil Rights

10

(14)

The Beginning of a New Kingdom

24

(9)

Questioning America

33

(11)

The Welcome Table

44

(5)

CHAPTER TWO High Priest of the Anti-Civil Rights Movement: The Calling of Sam Bowers

49

(33)

The Making of a Christian Militant

49

(7)

Patriots for Jesus

56

(4)

The Warrior Priest

60

(4)

Eliminating the Heretics

64

(8)

Against the World Rulers of This Present Darkness

72

(10)

CHAPTER THREE Douglas Hudgins: Theologian of the Closed Society

82

(34)

The Closed Society

82

(8)

An Uncluttered Life

90

(8)

Civil Rights Distractions

98

(8)

A Piety of the Pure Soul

106

(6)

The Interior Battle

112

(4)

CHAPTER FOUR Inside Agitator: Ed King's Church Visits

116

(36)

Breaking Free

116

(11)

Inside Agitator

127

(4)

The Church Visits

131

(10)

Burying the Dead

141

(5)

The Countercultural Christ

146

(6)

CHAPTER FIVE Cleveland Sellers and the River of No Return

152

(40)

Into the River

152

(9)

The Long, Hot Summer

161

(5)

Beyond the Beloved Community

166

(6)

Black Power

172

(7)

In the Rapids and Losing Control

179

(10)

SNCC the Closed Society

189

(3)

CONCLUSION Clearburning: Fragments of a Reconciling Faith

192

(3)

AFTERWORD

195

(10)

NOTES

205

(50)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

255

(4)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

259

(8)

INTERVIEWS

267

(2)

INDEX

269

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God's Long Summer

God's Long Summer

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