One Mississippi, two Mississippi : Methodists, murder, and the struggle for racial justice in Neshoba County

One Mississippi, two Mississippi : Methodists, murder, and the struggle for racial justice in Neshoba County / Carol V.R. George.

Here, Carol George offers a micro-history of Neshoba County, Mississippi: a place that has decided to break its silence and confront a past of racial injustice and violence.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: George, Carol V. R. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Methodists > Mississippi > Neshoba County > History.
African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi > Neshoba County > History.
African Americans > Crimes against
Methodists
Race relations
Neshoba County (Miss.) > Race relations > History.
Mississippi > Neshoba County
History
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Table of Contents:
  • History and memory : settling Longdale, Mississippi, and Mt. Zion Methodist Church. As we remembered Zion, 1833-1890 ; Mt. Zion Church and its memories, 1878 on ; "I was never scared" : Mt. Zion in the Jim Crow years, 1890-1954
  • The great anomaly : the Methodist Episcopal Church and its black members. Sanctified segregation : black Methodists and the Central Jurisdiction, 1920-1940 ; The segregationist insurgency and the politicization of Mississippi Methodism, 1940-1954
  • In the aftermath of Brown : the racial struggle inside the Mississippi Methodist Church, 1954-1964 ; "Segregation is not unchristian" : Methodists debate desegregation, 1956-1964 ; Remembering the Neshoba murders, 1963-1964
  • Mt. Zion's witness : creating memories. Morality and memory in Neshoba in the sixties ; Truth and tradition in Neshoba County, 1964-1967 ; The struggle for inclusive schools and churches, 1964-1974 ; "A tight little town" tackles its future, 1980-2000 ; Addressing unfinished business : the Philadelphia coalition ; The contested past : black justice and the Killen trial ; Epilogue : the importance of remembering.

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