Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, Volume 1

Davis W. Houck is Professor of Communication, Florida State University.David E. Dixon is is Professor and Chair of Political Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

• Introduction19541 Simcha Kling, Proclaim Liberty19552 Thomas Buford Maston, I Have Not a Demon3 Leo A. Bergman, God Looks on Mississippi and Emmett Till4 Clyde Gordon, A View of the Race Issue5 Herbert M. Baumgard, Those Who Have Felt the Lash of the Taskmaster19566 Charles Kenzie (C. K.) Steele, The Tallahassee Bus Protest Story19577 Aubrey N. Brown, The Church in Southern United States8 Merrimon Cuninggim, To Fashion as We Feel9 Thurgood Marshall, The Good People Sat Down10 Charles C. Diggs Jr., The Star Beckons Again11 C. O. Inge, No Time for Cowards12 Joseph A. De Laine, God Himself Fights for You195813 Ralph McGill, Send Not to Know for Whom the Bell Tolls14 William B. Silverman, We Will Not Yield15 Harry Golden, The Struggle to End Racial Segregation in the South16 Milton A. Galamison, Ties in Times of Tension17 Paul L. Stagg, Here I Stand18 Jacob M. Rothschild, And None Shall Make Them Afraid196019 Edward P. Morgan, Gandhi in Greensboro20 Thomas F. Pettigrew, Religious Leadership and the Desegregation Process21 John W. Deschner, Christian Students and the Challenge of Our Times22 Lillian Smith, Are We Still Buying a New World with Old Confederate Bills?196123 O. Merrill Boggs, This Time of Testing24 William B. Selah, Brotherhood196225 William Sloane Coffin Jr., The Prophetic Role26 Adam Daniel Beittel, Race Relations in Mississippi27 Andrew Young, The Church and Citizenship Education of the Negro in the South28 John David Maguire, The Church in Race Relations29 Hodding Carter Jr., The Why of Mississippi30 Alex D. Dickson Jr., The Right to a Free Pulpit196331 Roy C. Clark, Coming to Grips with the Real Issue32 Sargent Shriver, Religion and Race33 Joachim Prinz, A Nation of Silent Onlookers34 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? 196439 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 196546 Clarence Jordan, Loving Our Enemies47 Ralph J. Bunche, The March on Montgomery48 Stanley Yedwab, Memorial Eulogy for Mrs. Viola Liuzzo49 Daniel Germann, What Our Amen Means50 Clifford J. Durr, The Relevance of MoralityPermissions AcknowledgmentsIndex

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