Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, Volume 1

Davis W. Houck (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University) is Associate Professor at Florida State University.

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

"In this fascinating collection of voices, many of them long lost to history, Davis Houck and David Dixon perform a singular service by bringing together vital documents about the most important American domestic drama of the 20th century: the movement to make the nation live up to the promise of its founding, that all men are created equal, in the image and likeness of God. This book is destined to become indispensable not only for scholars, but for anyone who cares about how history really happens." - Jon Meacham, managing editor of Newsweek