Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965

Emancipation Day address / Mordecai Johnson A cool head and a warm heart / Charles P. Bowles The Supreme Court decision / A. Powell Davies Speech to Council of Christian Relations / Frank P. Graham Full integration America's newest challenge / Mary McLeod Bethune The church amidst ethnic and racial tensions / Benjamin E. Mays The disturbing Christ / J. R. Brokhoff The challenge of integration / William Lloyd Imes Speech to Calvary Christian Church / Sarah Patton Boyle Speech to Covington Ministerial Association / Sarah Patton Boyle Abraham then, and now / William Lloyd Imes Toward world brotherhood / James Hudson Spiritual rearmament / Mary McLeod Bethune Address at memorial meeting for Rev. George W. Lee / Roy Wilkins Do we still need do-gooders? / Albert D'Orlando Terror reigns in Mississippi / T. R. M. Howard I want you to know what they did to my boy / Mamie Till-Bradley I'm glad I was born white / Robbins Ralph Feed my sheep / Sarah Patton Boyle One Hundred Percent Wrong Club / Branch Rickey Drifting is dangerous / Paul N. Carnes A lesson on tolerance / J. R. Brokhoff A cigarette for Johnnie Birchfield / Horace Mann Bond Where to look for victory / James Hudson Mississippi's challenge in this grave hour / T. R. M. Howard Speech to National Baptist Convention, Denver / Roy Wilkins Christians and desegregation / D. Perry Ginn The South, collectively, is a patient most ill / P. D. East The role of the church / Martin Luther King, Jr. Report of the interracial leadership conference / James A. Pike Address / Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom / Adam Clayton Powell Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom / A. Philip Randolph A faith for difficult and critical times / Fred L. Shuttlesworth Address to the 48th annual NAACP convention / Channing H. Tobias Walk to freedom / Shad Polier The crucial test of Christian citizenship / Marion A. Boggs The meaning of Little Rock / A. Powell Davies Integration and public morals / Marion A. Wright

[Cont.] The ministry of reconciliation / James R. Bullock Life's inevitables : three things you cannot stop / J. R. Brokhoff Meeting of the Fair Share Organization / Fred L. Shuttlesworth A fresh look at race relations / Chester Bowles Address at the 50th anniversary of the NAACP The ministry of reconciliation / Colbert S. Cartwright Of this gospel I was made a minister / Carlos E. Martin Christianity and racial tensions / Edward Hughes Pruden To the people of Florida on race relations / LeRoy Collins Speech at Shaw University / James Lawson Segregation and the Ten Commandments / Everett Tilson Challenge to overcome / Benjamin E. Mays Students "standing up" for the American dream / Frank P. Graham Behaving like ordinary men / Edler Garnet Hawkins Witnessing / Will D. Campbell Speech to the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith / LeRoy Collins This I believe / Haywood N. Hill Some stern words of Jesus / Colbert S. Cartwright Mistakes I have made in race relations / William O. Byrd The Christian way in race relations / Robert J. McCracken The untold story of the sit-ins / Duncan Howlett Trying to get home without Jesus / Ralph David Abernathy The minister as citizen / Marion A. Wright Who speaks for the South? / James McBride Dabbs Hidden persuaders in human relations / Heslip "Happy" Lee Call for reason / Fred L. Shuttlesworth Not race but grace / Robert H. Walkup Speech at the University of Mississippi / Robert H. Walkup Love disqualified / Charles L. Stanford, Jr. Paranoia, guilt, and atonement / Duncan M. Gray, Jr. The worship God wants / George A. Chauncey The moving finger writes in Mississippi / James McBride Dabbs To define our love / James McBride Dabbs Reflections on the death of a child / Marion King The Christian faith and race / J. Claude Evans Speech at a church and race relations conference / James A. Pike This is the mood and this is the time / Edler Garnet Hawkins Broadcast on KPFA, Los Angeles, May 28, 1963 / Wyatt Tee Walker The testing of our faith / J. V. Cosby Summerell Speech at the Flamingo Club / James Bevel Untitled sermon / Bruce William Klunder Law and order and Christian duty / Eugene Carson Blake On loving one's neighbor as oneself / Francis Gerald Ensley Late we come / Eugene Carson Blake Invocation / Patrick O'Boyle Speech at the march on Washington / John Lewis Who is guilty in Birmingham? / Charles Morgan Jr. Some important differences / George H. Woodard Speech at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church / Dick Gregory Let's face the world / Arthur E. Shelton Golgotha 1964 / Frank T. Wilson Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally / Dave Dennis A modern day Moses / Dave Dennis Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally / Aaron Henry

[Cont.] The myth, the movement / James McBride Dabbs

The two way barrier / Duncan Howlett

As if in a foreign country / David G. Colwell

Division of home missions / Robert W. Spike

Danville Christian Progressive Association / Lawrence Campbell

Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally / Ella Josephine Baker

A Methodist pastor and race relations / Edward W. Harris

Countdown on human worth / L. Wilson Kilgore

Report from the South / Duncan Howlett

Christian response to racial revolution / James McBride Dabbs

Deep are the roots / Mildred Bell Johnson

Love and race relations / Ralph David Abernathy

The national civil rights crises / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Some points / Thomas Merton

Address to the 55th annual NAACP convention / Robert W. Spike

The long, hot summer / Albert D'Orlando

Address at Medgar Evers memorial service / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Sermon at Deering Community Church / Robert W. Spike

Funeral service for James Chaney / Dave Dennis and Edwin King

Untitled speech / Fannie Lou Hamer

Moral dimensions / Theodore M. Hesburgh

Civil rights and Christian duties / Robert J. McCracken

The misfits / Kelly Miller Smith

Religious panel, February 20, 1965 / Civil Rights Hearings

Jews, justice and liberalism / Charles F. Wittenstein

Report from Alabama and Mississippi / Duncan Howlett

In memoriam : James Reeb / Albert D'Orlando

Eulogy at memorial service for James Reeb / Roy Wilkins

To be a man / Robert A. Reed

The moral stature of the civil rights movement / Duncan Howlett

Address / Morris B. Abram

Untitled paper read posthumously / Jonathan Daniels

Dear friends in Christ / Daniel Berrigan

A Christian movement in a revolutionary age / Ralph David Abernathy

Trek toward the dawn / Kelly Miller Smith

Some comments on race hate / Gardner C. Taylor

Civil rights from a Christian point of view / Theodore Parker Ferris.

v. 2. Proclaim liberty / Simcha Kling

I have not a demon / Thomas Buford Maston

God looks on Mississippi and Emmett Till / Leo A. Bergman

A view of the race issue / Clyde Gordon

Those who have felt the lash of the taskmaster / / Herbert M. Baumgard

The Tallahassee bus protest story / Charles Kenzie (C.K.) Steele

The church in southern United States / Aubrey N. Brown

To fashion as we feel / Merrimon Cuninggim

The good people sat down / Thurgood Marshall

The star beckons again / Charles C. Diggs Jr.

No time for cowards / C.O. Inge

God himself fights for you / Joseph A. De Laine

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls / Ralph McGill

We will not yield / William B. Silverman

The struggle to end racial segregation in the south / Harry Golden

Ties in times of tension / Milton A. Galamison

Here I stand / Paul L. Stagg

And none shall make them afraid / Jacob M. Rothschild

Gandhi in Greensboro / Edward P. Morgan

Religious leadership and the desegregation process / Thomas F. Pettigrew

Christian students and the challenge of our times / John W. Deschner

Are we still buying a new world with old Confederate bills? / Lillian Smith

This time of testing / O. Merrill Boggs

Brotherhood / William B. Selah

The prophetic role / William Sloane Coffin Jr.

Race relations in Mississippi / Adam Daniel Beittel

The church and citizenship education of the Negro in the south / Andrew Young

The church in race relations / John David Maguire

The why of Mississippi / Hodding Carter Jr.

The right to a free pulpit / Alex D. Dickson Jr.

Coming to grips with the real issue / Roy C. Clark

Religion and race / Sargent Shriver

A nation of silent onlookers / Joachim Prinz

Sick at heart: Kaddish for bombing victims / Milton L. Grafman

The face of Christ / James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Thomas Kilgore

Their blood cries out / John Beecher

A rebirth of Albany / Slater King

What would Jesus do? / William Harrison Pipes

Decade of crisis / Vincent Harding

Race: challenge to religion / Mathew Ahmann

He being dead yet speaketh / Stephen Gill Spottswood

Which side are you on? / Leon A. Jick

Wearing another man's shoes / Theo O. Fisher

Earning the kingdom in an hour / Arthur Lelyveld

The Christian ethic and segregation / Cecil Albert Roberts

Loving our enemies / Clarence Jordan

The march on Montgomery / Ralph J. Bunche

Memorial eulogy for Mrs. Viola Liuzzo / Stanley Yedwab

What our amen means / Daniel Germann

The relevance of morality / Clifford J. Durr.