Freedom's Coming
Subtitle: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780807858141
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History of religion; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Central Southern states; Christianity - History - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - State & Local - South; southern religion; race; southern culture; theological racism; white evangelicals; black evangelicals; civil rights movement; religious coservatism; theological racism; segregation; Christian interracialism; beloved community; postbellum America; racial interchange; U.S. religion; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: In the early 1960s, freedom riders seeking to desegregate public transportation took up this playful riff from a popular 1950s tune: Freedom, freedom, freedom's coming, and it won't be long