God with Us
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Americus
Americus and Sumter County Movement
Author_Ansley L. Quiros
black freedom struggle
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Charles Sherrod
Christianity
church segregation
Civil rights
civil rights movement
Clarence Jordan
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Jimmy Carter
Koinonia
Koinonia Farm
race
race relations
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Shirley Sherrod
Southwest Georgia
Student Interracial Ministry
Sumter County
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- ISBN 9781469646756
- Weight: 642g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also about Christian theology. Since both activists and segregationists ardently claimed that God was on their side, racial issues were imbued with religious meanings from all sides. Whether in the traditional sanctuaries of the major white Protestant denominations, in the mass meetings in black churches, or in Christian expressions of interracialism, southerners resisted, pursued, and questioned racial change within various theological traditions.
God with Us examines the theological struggle over racial justice through the story of one Southern town-Americus, Georgia-where ordinary Americans sought and confronted racial change in the twentieth century. Documenting the passion and virulence of these contestations, this book offers insight into how midcentury battles over theology and race affected the rise of the Religious Right and indeed continue to resonate deeply in American life.
God with Us examines the theological struggle over racial justice through the story of one Southern town-Americus, Georgia-where ordinary Americans sought and confronted racial change in the twentieth century. Documenting the passion and virulence of these contestations, this book offers insight into how midcentury battles over theology and race affected the rise of the Religious Right and indeed continue to resonate deeply in American life.
Ansley L. Quiros is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama.
