Title: Oral history interview with Nancy Kester Neale, August 6, 1983
Description: Nancy Kester Neale remembers her father, Howard "Buck" Kester, who founded the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and held leadership positions in the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice. According to Neale, Kester was a pioneer whose activism demonstrated the power that religious organizations could play in improving the lives of the southern underclass. This interview is at times light on specifics, but is a useful look at the role of religious organizations in the struggle for economic and racial justice in the South well before the modern civil rights movement gained strength.
Subjects: Interviews, Women social reformers, Social movements, Christianity, Social justice, Fellowship of Southern Churchmen
Places: Southern States
People: Nancy Alice Kester Neale (1934-), Howard Kester (1904-1977), Alice Harris Kester