Title: Lift up your voice like a trumpet
First published: 1998
Description: When the Supreme Court declared in 1954 that segregated schools were unconstitutional, the highest echelons of American religious organizations enthusiastically supported the ruling. Many white southern clergy, however, were outspoken in their defense of segregation, and even those who supported integration were wary of risking their positions. Those who did so found themselves abandoned by friends, attacked by white supremacists, and often driven from their communities.

Michael Friedland offers a collective biography of several southern and nationally known white religious leaders - including William Sloane Coffin Jr., Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Eugene Carson Blake, Robert McAfee Brown, and Will D. Campbell - who did step forward to join the major social protest movements of the mid-twentieth century, lending their support first to the civil rights movement and later to protests over American involvement in Vietnam.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Protest movements, Whites, Clergy, Civil rights workers, Political activity, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, protest movements, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, White people, Clergé, Activité politique, Histoire, Défenseurs des droits de l'homme, Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975, Contestation, RELIGION, Christianity, General, Christian Life, Social Issues, Geestelijkheid, Protestbewegingen
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: BL65.P7 F73 1998