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Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy

A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy

Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, and extensive interviews, Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy offers a life-and-times biography of the Alabama Black Belt minister, Renwick C. Kennedy (19001985). Here, Tennant McWilliams gives an unvarnished account of Kennedys tortuous efforts to make his congregants and other southern whites better Christians.

Kennedy came from upcountry South Carolina, a place rife with Scotch-Irish Associate Reformed Presbyterianspeople of biblical infallibility and individual piety and salvation. In 1927, after a life-changing theology education at Princeton, he moved to Camden, Alabama, county seat of Wilcox County. There, he came to believe that God had a mandate for him: to change the Half Christian conservative, and the often violent, racial behaviors around him. As a neo-orthodox Protestant, Kennedy never rejected literal approaches to the Bible. Still, out of the Full Christian Social Gospel, he urged changed racial behavior. Ultimately this led him to publish confrontational short stories and essays in Christian Century and New Republicmost set in fictitious Yaupon County.

In World War II, Kennedy served as a chaplain with the famed 102nd Evacuation Hospital. He came home hoping the Allied victory would spur Americans to fight racial segregation just as they had fought racial fascism in Europe. The 1948 Dixiecrat movement dashed these hopes, turning much of his neo-orthodox optimism to cynicism. His hope found fleeting resurgence in the civil rights movement, and saw Kennedy quietly leading desegregation of Troy University, where he was an administrator. But the eras assassinations, combined with George Wallace and the rise of southern white Republicans, regularly returned him to the frustrated hopes of 1948and fostered a pessimism about truly changed hearts that he took to his grave in 1985. See more
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  • Weight: 272g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780817321611

About Gerry ConwayMarv WolfmanSteve EnglehartTennant McWilliams

Tennant McWilliams is dean and professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and today teaches occasionally at the University of South Alabama. His previous writings include The New South Faces the World The Chaplains Conflict: Good and Evil in a War Hospital and Alabama and the Problem of Change.

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