African American religion and the civil rights movement in Arkansas
Focusing on the state of Arkansas as typical in the role of ecclesiastical activism, Johnny Williams argues that black religion from the period of slavery through the era of segregation provided theological resources that motivated and sustained preachers and parishioners battling racial oppression.
Print Book, English, 2008
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2008
Church history
177 pages ; 23 cm
9781604731866, 1604731869
235926671
Cultural dimensions of collective action
History of activist religious interpretation
Church culture and sociopolitical movements during Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction
Social activism preceding the desegregation movement in Little Rock
Religion's effect on mobilizing civil rights protest
Culture's centrality in African-American women's civil rights activism
Theoretical conclusions