A Stone of Hope
Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it is a story of the power of religious tradition.Chappell reconsiders the intellectual roots of civil rights reform, showing how northern liberals' faith in the power of human reason to overcome prejudice was at odds with the movement's goal of immediate change. Even when liberals sincerely wanted change, they recognized that they could not necessaril…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5660-4
- EAN: 9780807856604
- Produktnummer: 1428101
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 362 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 583 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 583
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