Daily Demonstrators

The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9700-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest and commitment to equality, were castigated by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. for not showing up on the streets to support the civil rights movement. Daily Demonstrators shows how the civil rights movement played out in Mennonite homes and churches from the 1940s through the 1960s.

In the first book to bring together Mennonite religious history and civil rights movement history, Tobin Miller Shearer discusses how the civil rights movement challenged Mennonites to explore whether they, within their own church, were truly as committed to racial tolerance and equality as they might like to believe. Shearer shows the surprising role of children in overcoming the racial stereotypes of white adults. Reflecting the transformation taking place in the nation as a whole, Mennonites had to go through their own civil rights struggle before they came to accept interracial marriages and integrated congregations.

Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in modern American religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shearer, Tobin Miller

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1. A Separated History
Chapter 2. Prayer-Covered Protest
Chapter 3. Fresh Air Disruption
Chapter 4. Vincent Harding's Dual Demonstration
Chapter 5. The Wedding March
Chapter 6. Congregational Campaign
Chapter 7. The Manifesto Movement
Chapter 8. A New Civil Rights Story
Appendix. Interview Subjects
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shearer, Tobin Miller
Tobin Miller Shearer is an assistant professor of history and the African-American Studies coordinator at the University of Montana.