From Reconciliation to Revolution
Subtitle: How the Student Interracial Ministry Took up the Cause of Civil Rights
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781469630434
Subjects: African americans, civil rights; Civil rights movements, united states; Race relations, religious aspects, christianity; United states, race relations
Description: "Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American churches' approach to race. In this book, David Cline details how, between the founding of SIM in 1960 and its dissolution at the end of the decade, the seminary students who created and ran the organization influenced hundreds of thousands of community members through its various racial reconciliation and economic justice projects"--