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028			_a: Samyak Vidyasagar _b: Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh _c: BOS-000531
082			_a305.89 MAR
100			_aMarsh, Charles.
245			_aGod's Long Summer _b: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. _c/ Charles Marsh.
260			_a, Princeton _b: Princeton University Press _c, 2008.
300			_axv, 276p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aIn the summer of 1964, the turmoil of the civil rights movement reached its peak in Mississippi, with activists across the political spectrum claiming that God was on their side in the struggle over racial justice. This was the summer when violence against blacks increased at an alarming rate and when the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi resulted in national media attention. Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed. He weaves their voices into a gripping narrative: a Ku Klux Klansman, for example, borrows fiery language from the Bible to link attacks on blacks to his "priestly calling"; a middle-aged woman describes how the Gospel inspired her to rally other African Americans to fight peacefully for their dignity; a SNCC worker tells of harrowing encounters with angry white mobs and his pilgrimage toward a new racial spirituality called Black Power. Through these emotionally charged stories, Marsh invites us to consider the civil rights movement anew, in terms of religion as a powerful yet protean force driving social action.
650			_aStories of Faith
650			_aCivil Rights
650			_aCivil rights movement
700			_aCharles Marsh
942			_cBOOK
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