Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, Volume 2

Davis W. Houck is Professor of Communication, Florida State University.David E. Dixon is is Professor and Chair of Political Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Introduction 1954 1 Simcha Kling, Proclaim Liberty 1955 2 Thomas Buford Maston, I Have Not a Demon 3 Leo A. Bergman, God Looks on Mississippi and Emmett Till 4 Clyde Gordon, A View of the Race Issue 5 Herbert M. Baumgard, Those Who Have Felt the Lash of the Taskmaster 1956 6 Charles Kenzie (C. K.) Steele, The Tallahassee Bus Protest Story 1957 7 Aubrey N. Brown, The Church in Southern United States 8 Merrimon Cuninggim, To Fashion as We Feel 9 Thurgood Marshall, The Good People Sat Down 10 Charles C. Diggs Jr., The Star Beckons Again 11 C. O. Inge, No Time for Cowards 12 Joseph A. De Laine, God Himself Fights for You 1958 13 Ralph McGill, Send Not to Know for Whom the Bell Tolls 14 William B. Silverman, We Will Not Yield 15 Harry Golden, The Struggle to End Racial Segregation in the South 16 Milton A. Galamison, Ties in Times of Tension 17 Paul L. Stagg, Here I Stand 18 Jacob M. Rothschild, And None Shall Make Them Afraid 1960 19 Edward P. Morgan, Gandhi in Greensboro 20 Thomas F. Pettigrew, Religious Leadership and the Desegregation Process 21 John W. Deschner, Christian Students and the Challenge of Our Times 22 Lillian Smith, Are We Still Buying a New World with Old Confederate Bills? 1961 23 O. Merrill Boggs, This Time of Testing 24 William B. Selah, Brotherhood 1962 25 William Sloane Coffin Jr., The Prophetic Role 26 Adam Daniel Beittel, Race Relations in Mississippi 27 Andrew Young, The Church and Citizenship Education of the Negro in the South 28 John David Maguire, The Church in Race Relations 29 Hodding Carter Jr., The Why of Mississippi 30 Alex D. Dickson Jr., The Right to a Free Pulpit 1963 31 Roy C. Clark, Coming to Grips with the Real Issue 32 Sargent Shriver, Religion and Race 33 Joachim Prinz, A Nation of Silent Onlookers 34 Milton L. Grafman, Sick at Heart: Kaddish for Bombing Victims 35 James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Thomas Kilgore, The Face of Christ 36 John Beecher, Their Blood Cries Out 37 Slater King, A Rebirth of Albany 38 William Harrison Pipes, What Would Jesus Do? 1964 39 Vincent Harding, Decade of Crisis 40 Mathew Ahmann, Race: Challenge to Religion 41 Stephen Gill Spottswood, He Being Dead Yet Speaketh 42 Leon A. Jick, Which Side Are You On? 43 Theo O. Fisher, Wearing Another Man's Shoes 44 Arthur Lelyveld, Earning the Kingdom in an Hour 45 Cecil Albert Roberts, The Christian Ethic and Segregation 1965 46 Clarence Jordan, Loving Our Enemies 47 Ralph J. Bunche, The March on Montgomery 48 Stanley Yedwab, Memorial Eulogy for Mrs. Viola Liuzzo 49 Daniel Germann, What Our Amen Means 50 Clifford J. Durr, The Relevance of Morality Permissions Acknowledgments Index

"Davis Houck and David Dixon have brought to life voices of the past -- some perhaps unknown or forgotten -- whose witnesses were 'Light shining in the Darkness." -- Clay F Lee, Bishop, Retired, The United Methodist Church "Unlike millions of other Americans and much of the national news media, Davis Houck and David Dixon recognise that the civil rights movement -- the largest mass struggle for human rights in American history -- did not hinge on a single person or a single speech. In this collection, they supply what the public has needed for years: a broad and diversified spectrum of orations that spurred the movement onward." -- Keith D Miller, Professor of English, Arizona State University Students of this era owe a debt to Houck and Davis for salvaging and sharing more of 'the multisided and messy story' of the role of religious faith in the civil rights movement. -- Joseph T. Reiff, Professor of Religion at Emory & Henry College -- The Journal of Southern Religion A major strength of the book is the inclusion of many religions such as Zionist, Mennonites, Presbyterian, Methodist and others. At the same time, the rhetoric is compiled from media, academic settings, church settings, and Civil Rights rhetorical situations. Thus, the book would serve as an excellent book in history, social movements, and rhetoric courses. -- Jennifer F. Wood -- Communication Research Trends