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Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries
Tobin Miller Shearer
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Description for Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries
Hardback. Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in modern American religion. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, 30, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; HRA; HRCC9; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest and commitment to equality, were castigated by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. for not showing up on the streets to support the civil rights movement. Daily Demonstrators shows how the civil rights movement played out in Mennonite homes and churches from the 1940s through the 1960s. In the first book to bring together Mennonite religious history and civil rights movement history, Tobin Miller Shearer discusses how the civil rights movement challenged Mennonites to explore whether they, within their own church, were truly as committed to racial tolerance and ... Read more
The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest and commitment to equality, were castigated by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. for not showing up on the streets to support the civil rights movement. Daily Demonstrators shows how the civil rights movement played out in Mennonite homes and churches from the 1940s through the 1960s. In the first book to bring together Mennonite religious history and civil rights movement history, Tobin Miller Shearer discusses how the civil rights movement challenged Mennonites to explore whether they, within their own church, were truly as committed to racial tolerance and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801897009
SKU
V9780801897009
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About Tobin Miller Shearer
Tobin Miller Shearer is an assistant professor of history and the African-American Studies coordinator at the University of Montana.
Reviews for Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries
A unique book which brings to light many important events in the life of the Mennonite Church.
David L. Sauder Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 2011
David L. Sauder Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 2011