A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
- ISBN-10
- 080782819X
- ISBN-13
- 9780807828199
- Series
- A Stone of Hope
- Category
- Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-01
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Authors
- David L. Chappell, Professor David L Chappell
Description
The author of Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement revisits this monumental period in American history, revealing the power of religious fervor as a force of change that managed to succeed where liberal rationalism could not. (History)
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