LEADER 03632nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910457870303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-43451-2 010 $a9786613434517 010 $a1-60473-584-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000082375 035 $a(EBL)840341 035 $a(OCoLC)774384925 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000598497 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354170 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000598497 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10599877 035 $a(PQKB)11608082 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC840341 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL840341 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10529422 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL343451 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000082375 100 $a20021016d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrican American religion and the civil rights movement in Arkansas$b[electronic resource] /$fJohnny E. Williams 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57806-545-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 162-171) and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Cultural Dimensions of Collective Action; Chapter 2. History of Activist Religious Interpretation; Chapter 3. Church Culture and Sociopolitical Movements during Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction; Chapter 4. Social Activism Preceding the Desegregation Movement in Little Rock; Chapter 5. Religion's Effect on Mobilizing Civil Rights Protest; Chapter 6. Culture's Centrality in African-American Women's Civil Rights Activism; Chapter 7. Theoretical Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J 327 $aKL; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y 330 $aCivil Rights -- Religious History--> What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues Johnny E. Williams. Focusing on the state of Arkansas as typical in the role of ecclesiastical activism, his book argues that black religion from the period of slavery through the era of segregation provided theological resources that motivated and sustained preachers 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zArkansas$xHistory 606 $aCivil rights movements$zArkansas$xHistory 606 $aAfrican American civil rights workers$xReligious life$zArkansas 606 $aAfrican Americans$zArkansas$xReligion 606 $aAfrican American churches$zArkansas$xHistory 606 $aReligion and politics$zArkansas$xHistory 607 $aArkansas$xRace relations 607 $aArkansas$xChurch history 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory. 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican American civil rights workers$xReligious life 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xReligion. 615 0$aAfrican American churches$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory. 676 $a261.7/089/960730767 700 $aWilliams$b Johnny E$0891921 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457870303321 996 $aAfrican American religion and the civil rights movement in Arkansas$91992010 997 $aUNINA