In this Book
- With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
But Gaillard examines the South from other angles as well--the religious heritage, for example, that once led Flannery O'Connor to write about a "Christ-haunted" South. We meet Billy Graham, the greatest evangelist of his time, who admitted in the course of interviews with Gaillard that his ministry represented a "very narrow gift." There are profiles here of the Southern Baptist renegade Will Campbell and former President Jimmy Carter, whose commitment to his own understanding of Christianity has sometimes led him into controversy. Gaillard writes also about the revealing power of Southern music--how the great Johnny Cash, for example, became a force for reconciliation in America. In the final section of the book we meet some of the characters Gaillard has covered through the years, including John T. Scopes, whose final public appearance Gaillard wrote about as a young reporter in Nashville.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction: The Heart of Dixie
- pp. 1-10
- Part I: “A Change Is Gonna Come”
- Deliverance: The Greensboro Four
- pp. 13-24
- Perry Wallace: The Long Road Home
- pp. 33-44
- The Sheriff Without a Gun
- pp. 45-55
- RFK: A Night at Vanderbilt
- pp. 56-60
- Free at Last, Free at Last
- pp. 61-66
- Part II: “Amazing Grace”
- The Gospel According to Will
- pp. 69-84
- The Lonely Crusade of Karen Graham
- pp. 106-112
- Koinonia: The Birth of Habitat for Humanity
- pp. 113-120
- The Lion’s Den and Jimmy Carter
- pp. 121-130
- Part III: Soundtracks
- The Man in Black
- pp. 133-140
- Southern Rock: The New Good Ole Boys
- pp. 141-151
- Old-Fashioned Notions of Love and Music
- pp. 152-169
- With Music and Justice for All
- pp. 170-176
- Part IV: Characters
- A Visit with John T. Scopes
- pp. 179-185
- James Baldwin’s First Journey South
- pp. 186-192
- The Many Crusades of Tipper Gore
- pp. 193-204
- The Education of Robert Howard Allen
- pp. 205-213
- Pride and Prejudice
- pp. 214-219
- The Last Confession
- pp. 220-226
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 227-230