The last segregated hour
Subtitle: the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation
By: Stephen R. Haynes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780195395051
Subjects: Church history; Christianity; Segregation; Blacks; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         )and index.
Table of contents: title: "The start of a new movement across the South": the first kneel-ins, 1960; title: "Christ did not build any racial walls": church desegregation campaigns, 1961-65; title: "This spectacle of a church with guarded doors": the Memphis campaign of 1964; title: "Like a child that had been unfaithful": a church-related college and a college-related church; title: "A time when the bare souls of men are revealed": Southern Presbyterians respond; title: "You're going to have to go out there yourself": church people; title: "Our presence at the church is itself an act of worship": White visitors; title: "You will only know my motivation when you open the door": Black visitors; title: "Mama, why don't they just let them in?": children; title: "The greatest crisis in the 120-year history of our church": defiance, intervention, and schism; title: "Not the church's advantages, but the city's disadvantages": wrestling with the past at Second Presbyterian Church; title: "A season of prayer and corporate repentance": wrestling with the past at Independent Presbyterian Church.