Francis X Walter

Gebundenes Buch

From Preaching to Meddling

A White Minister in the Civil Rights Movement

Beschreibung

For years Southern minister Francis X. Walter was silent about the injustices of Jim Crow, blinded by the status quo, until the violent killing of a fellow priest during the civil rights movement. From Preaching to Meddling is the story of how Walter turned from passive objector to outspoken agitator, marked with Walter's humor and personal recollections of the most formative period of modern American history.

Autor

Francis X. Walter is a retired Episcopal priest from Mobile, Alabama. Walter's dismissal as rector of an Alabama church after helping to establish an Episcopal group advancing cultural and racial unity led to his founding the Selma Inter-religious Project (SIP) shortly after the historic Selma March of 1965. He began working as one white man's voice of conscience but later transformed SIP into a multi-pronged organization whose lawyers, organizers, and experts fought for civil rights and racial justice, advanced community development, and enabled the advocacy for poor people in the heart of Dixie.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781588383907
• ISBN-10: 1588383903
• Artikelnr.: 59470118