TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newman,Mark
TI  - Divine agitators: the Delta ministry and civil rights in Mississippi 
SN  - 9780820340203
AV  - E185.93.M6 N49 2004eb
U1  - 323.1/196073/09762 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - Delta Ministry
KW  - fast
KW  - National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
KW  - gnd
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Droits de l'homme
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Droits
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Bürgerrechtsbewegung
KW  - Christentum
KW  - Ethnische Beziehungen
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Staat Mississippi
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes list of abbreviations, chapter notes (pages 227-314), bibliographical references (pages 315-331) , and index; The origins and creation of the Delta Ministry --; External relations, internal policy, 1964-1965 --; Hattiesburg, 1964-1967 --; McComb, 1964-1966 --; Greenville and the Delta, 1964-1966 --; Under investigation --; Freedom City --; Changing focus, 1967-1971 --; Internal dissension and crisis --; Winding down --; Conclusion
N2  - The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi--the southern state with the largest black population proportionately and with the stiffest level of white resistance. At its height the Ministry, which was headquartered in Greenville, had the largest field staff of any civil rights organization in the South. Active through the mid-1970s, the Ministry outlasted SNCC, CORE, and the SCLC in Mississippi, helping to fill the vacuums when these organizations fell apart or refocused their energies. This first book-length study of the Delta Ministry tells how the organization conducted literacy, citizenship, and vocational training, fostering the growth of Head Start and community-based health care and in widening the distribution of free surplus federal food and food stamps. Divine Agitators looks at many inadequately studied events across a time span that extends beyond the widely accepted end dates of the civil rights movement. It offers new insights, at the most local levels of the movement, into conflict within and between civil rights groups, the increasing subtlety of white resistance, the disengagement of the federal government, and the rise of Black Power
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