The role of ideas in the civil rights South
Subtitle: essays
By: by Tony Badger ... [et al.] ; edited by Ted Ownby.
Contributors: Badger, Anthony J.; Ownby, Ted.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- Philosophy.; Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Southern States -- Race relations.; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The papers in this volume began as part of the [1999] Annual Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium, at the University of Mississippi"--Acknowledgments.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Niebuhrisms and Myrdaleries: The Intellectual Roots of the Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered 3; title: DAVID L. CHAPPELL; title: The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama 19; title: CHARLES MARSH; title: Kingdom of God and Beloved Community in the Thought of Martin; title: Luther King, Jr. 39; title: RALPH E. LUKER; title: Beacon Light and Penumbra: African American Gospel Lyrics and Martin; title: Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" 55; title: KEITH D. MILLER; title: Fannie Lou Hamer: New Ideas for the Civil Rights Movement and American Democracy 69; title: LINDA REED; title: "Closet Moderates": Why White Liberals Failed, 1940-1970 83; title: TONY BADGER; title: The Struggle Against Equality: Conservative Intellectuals in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1975 113; title: RICHARD H. KING; title: Jim Johnson of Arkansas: Segregationist Prototype 137; title: ELIZABETH JACOWAY; title: Doubtless Sincere: New Characters in the Civil Rights Cast 157; title: LAUREN F. WINNER.