The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Niebuhrisms and Myrdaleries: The Intellectual Roots of the Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered 3 DAVID L. CHAPPELL The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama 19 CHARLES MARSH Kingdom of God and Beloved Community in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. 39 RALPH E. LUKER Beacon Light and Penumbra: African American Gospel Lyrics and Martin Luther King, Jr/s "I Have a Dream" 55 KEITH D. MILLER Fannie Lou Hamer: New Ideas for the Civil Rights Movement and American Democracy 69 LINDA REED "Closet Moderates": Why White Liberals Failed, 1940-1970 83 TONY BADGER The Struggle Against Equality: Conservative Intellectuals in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1975 113 RICHARD H. KING Jim Johnson of Arkansas: Segregationist Prototype 137 ELIZABETH JACOWAY Doubtless Sincere: New Characters in the Civil Rights Cast 157 LAUREN F. WINNER Notes 171 Contributors 207 Index 209 V This page intentionally left blank ...