In this Book
Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries
Book
2010
Published by:
Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest and commitment to equality, were castigated by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. for not showing up on the streets to support the civil rights movement. Daily Demonstrators shows how the civil rights movement played out in Mennonite homes and churches from the 1940s through the 1960s.In the first book to bring together Mennonite religious history and civil rights movement history, Tobin Miller Shearer discusses how the civil rights movement challenged Mennonites to explore whether they, within their own church, were truly as committed to racial tolerance and equality as they might like to believe. Shearer shows the surprising role of children in overcoming the racial stereotypes of white adults. Reflecting the transformation taking place in the nation as a whole, Mennonites had to go through their own civil rights struggle before they came to accept interracial marriages and integrated congregations.Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in modern American religion.
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
pp. i-iii
Copyright Page
pp. iv
Contents
Preface
pp. vii-xxi
CHAPTER 1. A Separated History
pp. 1-28
CHAPTER 2. Prayer-Covered Protest
pp. 29-61
CHAPTER 3. Fresh Air Disruption
pp. 62-97
CHAPTER 4. Vincent Hardingâs Dual Demonstration
pp. 98-129
CHAPTER 5. The Wedding March
pp. 130-159
CHAPTER 6. Congregational Campaign
pp. 160-189
CHAPTER 7. The Manifesto Movement
pp. 190-220
CHAPTER 8. A New Civil Rights Story
pp. 221-250
Appendix. Interview Subjects
pp. 251-252
Notes
pp. 253-328
Bibliography
pp. 329-343
Index
pp. 345-361
ISBN | 9781421428079 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9780801897009, 9780801899430 |
DOI | 10.1353/book.482![]() |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 794700351 |
Pages | 392 |
Launched on MUSE | 2012-01-01 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |
Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |