Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

Introduction

1954

1 Mordecai Johnson, Emancipation Day Address

2 Charles P. Bowles, A Cool Head and a Warm Heart

3 A. Powell Davies, The Supreme Court Decision

4 Frank P. Graham, Speech to Council of Christian Relations

5 Mary McLeod Bethune, Full Integration−America's Newest Challenge

6 Benjamin E. Mays, The Church Amidst Ethnic and Racial Tensions

7 J. R. Brokhoff, The Disturbing Christ

8 William Lloyd Imes, The Challenge of Integration...

1955

9 Sarah Patton Boyle, Speech to Calvary Christian Church

10 Sarah Patton Boyle, Speech to Covington Ministerial Association

11 William Lloyd Imes, Abraham Then, and Now

12 James Hudson, Toward World Brotherhood

13 Mary McLeod Bethune, Spiritual Rearmament

14 Roy Wilkins, Address at Memorial Meeting for Rev. George W. Lee

15 Albert D'Orlando, Do We Still Need Do-Gooders?

16 T. R. M. Howard, Terror Reigns in Mississippi

17 Mamie Till-Bradley, I Want You to Know What They Did to My Boy

18 Robbins Ralph, I'm Glad I was Born White...

19 Sarah Patton Boyle, Feed My Sheep

1956

20 Branch Rickey, One Hundred Percent Wrong Club

21 Paul N. Carnes, Drifting is Dangerous

22 J. R. Brokhoff, A Lesson on Tolerance

23 Horace Mann Bond, A Cigarette for Johnnie Birchfield

24 James Hudson, Where to Look for Victory

25 T. R. M. Howard, Mississippi's Challenge in this Grave Hour

26 Roy Wilkins, Speech to National Baptist Convention, Denver

27 D. Perry Ginn, Christians and Desegregation

1957

28 P. D. East, The South, Collectively, is a Patient Most Ill

29 Martin Luther King, Jr., The Role of the Church...

30 James A. Pike, Report of the Interracial Leadership Conference

31 Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Address...

32 Adam Clayton Powell, Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

33 A. Philip Randolph, Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

34 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, A Faith for Difficult and Critical Times

35 Channing H. Tobias, Address to the 48th Annual NAACP Convention

36 Shad Polier, Walk to Freedom

37 Marion A. Boggs, The Crucial Test of Christian Citizenship

38 A. Powell Davies, The Meaning of Little Rock

39 Marion A. Wright, Integration and Public Morals

1958

40 James R. Bullock, The Ministry of Reconciliation

41 J. R. Brokhoff, Life's Inevitables-Three Things You Cannot Stop

42 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Meeting of the Fair Share Organization

1959

43 Chester Bowles, A Fresh Look at Race Relations

44 Max D. Davidson, Address at the 50th Anniversary of the NAACP

45 Colbert S. Cartwright, The Ministry of Reconciliation

46 Carlos E. Martin, Of This Gospel I was Made a Minister

47 Edward Hughes Pruden, Christianity and Racial Tensions

1960

48 LeRoy Collins, To the People of Florida on Race Relations

49 James Lawson, Speech at Shaw University

50 Everett Tilson, Segregation and the Ten Commandments

51 Benjamin E. Mays, Challenge to Overcome...

52 Frank P. Graham, Students "Standing Up" for the American Dream

53 Edler Garnet Hawkins, Behaving Like Ordinary Men

54 Will D. Campbell, Witnessing...

55 LeRoy Collins, Speech to the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith

1961

56 Haywood N. Hill, This I Believe

57 Colbert S. Cartwright, Some Stern Words of Jesus

58 William O. Byrd, Mistakes I Have Made in Race Relations

59 Robert J. McCracken, The Christian Way in Race Relations

60 Duncan Howlett, The Untold Story of the Sit-Ins

61 Ralph David Abernathy, Trying to Get Home Without Jesus

62 Marion A. Wright, The Minister as Citizen

63 James McBride Dabbs, Who Speaks for the South?

1962

64 Heslip "Happy" Lee, Hidden Persuaders in Human Relations

65 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Call for Reason...

66 Robert H. Walkup, Not Race but Grace

67 Robert H. Walkup, Speech at the University of Mississippi

68 Charles L. Stanford, Jr., Love Disqualified

69 Duncan M. Gray, Jr., Paranoia, Guilt, and Atonement

70 George A. Chauncey, The Worship God Wants

71 James McBride Dabbs, The Moving Finger Writes in Mississippi

72 James McBride Dabbs, To Define Our Love

73 Marion King, Reflections on the Death of a Child

1963

74 J. Claude Evans, The Christian Faith and Race

75 James A. Pike, Speech at a Church and Race Relations Conference

76 Edler Garnet Hawkins, This Is the Mood and This Is the Time

77 Wyatt Tee Walker, Broadcast on KPFA, Los Angeles May 28, 1963

78 J. V. Cosby Summerell, The Testing of Our Faith

79 James Bevel, Speech at the Flamingo Club

80 Bruce William Klunder, Untitled Sermon

81 Eugene Carson Blake, Law and Order and Christian Duty

82 Francis Gerald Ensley, On Loving One's Neighbor as Oneself

83 Eugene Carson Blake, Late We Come

84 Patrick O'Boyle, Invocation...

85 John Lewis, Speech at the March on Washington...

86 Charles Morgan, Jr., Who Is Guilty in Birmingham?

87 George H. Woodard, Some Important Differences

88 Dick Gregory, Speech at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church

89 Arthur E. Shelton, Let's Face the World

90 Frank T. Wilson, Golgotha 1964

91 Dave Dennis, Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally

92 Dave Dennis, A Modern Day Moses

93 Aaron Henry, Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally

94 James McBride Dabbs, The Myth, the Movement...

95 Duncan Howlett, The Two Way Barrier

96 David G. Colwell, As if in a Foreign Country

97 Robert W. Spike, Division of Home Missions

98 Lawrence Campbell, Danville Christian Progressive Association

1964

99 Ella Josephine Baker, Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally

100 Edward W. Harris, A Methodist Pastor and Race Relations

101 L. Wilson Kilgore, Countdown on Human Worth

102 Duncan Howlett, Report from the South

103 James McBride Dabbs, Christian Response to Racial Revolution

104 Mildred Bell Johnson, Deep are the Roots

105 Ralph David Abernathy, Love and Race Relations

106 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, The National Civil Rights Crises...

107 Thomas Merton, Some Points...

108 Robert W. Spike, Address to the 55th Annual NAACP Convention

109 Albert D'Orlando, The Long, Hot Summer

110 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Address at Medgar Evers Memorial Service

111 Robert W. Spike, Sermon at Deering Community Church

112 Dave Dennis and Edwin King , Funeral Service for James Chaney

113 Fannie Lou Hamer, Untitled Speech

114 Theodore M. Hesburgh, Moral Dimensions...

115 Robert J. McCracken, Civil Rights and Christian Duties

1965

116 Kelly Miller Smith, The Misfits

117 Civil Rights Hearings, Religious Panel, February 20, 1965

118 Charles F. Wittenstein, Jews, Justice and Liberalism

119 Duncan Howlett, Report from Alabama and Mississippi

120 Albert D'Orlando, In Memoriam... James Reeb

121 Roy Wilkins, Eulogy at Memorial Service for James Reeb

122 Robert A. Reed, To Be a Man

123 Duncan Howlett, The Moral Stature of the Civil Rights Movement

124 Morris B. Abram, Address...

125 Jonathan Daniels, Untitled Paper Read Posthumously

126 Daniel Berrigan, Dear Friends in Christ

127 Ralph David Abernathy, A Christian Movement in a Revolutionary Age

128 Kelly Miller Smith, Trek Toward the Dawn

129 Gardner C. Taylor, Some Comments on Race Hate

130 Theodore Parker Ferris, Civil Rights from a Christian Point of View

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