George, Carol V. R.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- History and memory : settling Longdale, Mississippi, and Mt. Zion Methodist Church. As we remembered Zion, 1833-1890 Mt. Zion Church and its memories, 1878 on I was never scared : Mt. Zion in the Jim Crow years, 1890-1954 — The great anomaly : the Methodist Episcopal Church and its black members. Sanctified segregation : black Methodists and the Central Jurisdiction, 1920-1940 The segregationist insurgency and the politicization of Mississippi Methodism, 1940-1954 — In the aftermath of Brown : the racial struggle inside the Mississippi Methodist Church, 1954-1964 Segregation is not unchristian : Methodists debate desegregation, 1956-1964 Remembering the Neshoba murders, 1963-1964 — Mt. Zion’s witness : creating memories. Morality and memory in Neshoba in the sixties Truth and tradition in Neshoba County, 1964-1967 The struggle for inclusive schools and churches, 1964-1974 A tight little town tackles its future, 1980-2000 Addressing unfinished business : the Philadelphia coalition The contested past : black justice and the Killen trial Epilogue : the importance of remembering.
- Links the history of the United Methodist Church, a denomination important to blacks and whites, and the Mt. Zion Methodist Church, where three murdered civil rights workers were registering voters in 1964, to the halting progress towards racial justice in Mississippi.
Subjects:
- Methodists — Mississippi — Neshoba County — History.
- Neshoba County (Miss.) — Race relations — History.
- African Americans — Crimes against — Mississippi — Neshoba County — History.
- Mississippi — Neshoba County. fast (OCoLC)fst01216321
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
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