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Daily Demonstrators

The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries

Tobin Miller Shearer

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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...

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 equality as they might like to believe. Shearer shows the surprising role of children in overcoming the racial stereotypes of white adults. Reflecting the transformation taking place in the nation as a whole, Mennonites had to go through their own civil rights struggle before they came to accept interracial marriages and integrated congregations.

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.

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A unique book which brings to light many important events in the life of the Mennonite Church.

Recommended.

One of the most interesting works of Mennonite history in some time.

Daily Demonstrators offers a unique examination of under-explored aspects of the American civil rights movement.

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9
Pages
392
ISBN
9780801897009
Illustration Description
30 halftones
Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. A Separated History
Chapter 2. Prayer-Covered Protest
Chapter 3. Fresh Air Disruption
Chapter 4. Vincent Harding's Dual Demonstration
Chapter 5. The Wedding March
Chapter 6

Preface
Chapter 1. A Separated History
Chapter 2. Prayer-Covered Protest
Chapter 3. Fresh Air Disruption
Chapter 4. Vincent Harding's Dual Demonstration
Chapter 5. The Wedding March
Chapter 6. Congregational Campaign
Chapter 7. The Manifesto Movement
Chapter 8. A New Civil Rights Story
Appendix. Interview Subjects
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Tobin Miller Shearer
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Tobin Miller Shearer

Tobin Miller Shearer is an assistant professor of history and the African-American Studies coordinator at the University of Montana.