A Stone of Hope
by Chappell, David L.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-08-29
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary
In a provocative assessment of the success of the civil rights movement, David L. Chappell reconsiders the intellectual roots of civil rights reform, showing how the prophetic tradition of the Old Testament-sometimes translated into secular language-drove African American activists to unprecedented solidarity and self-sacrifice. Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, James Lawson, Modjeska Simkins, and other black leaders believed, as the Hebrew prophets believed, that they had to stand apart from society and instigate dramatic changes to force an unwilling world to abandon its sinful ways. Although segregationists outvoted and outgunned black integrationists, the segregationists lost, Chappell concludes, largely because they did not have a religious commitment to their cause.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | (8) | |
| 1 Hungry Liberals: Their Sense That Something Was Missing | 9 | (17) | |
| 2 Recovering Optimists | 26 | (18) | |
| 3 The Prophetic Ideas That Made Civil Rights Move | 44 | (23) | |
| 4 Prophetic Christian Realism and the 1960's Generation | 67 | (20) | |
| 5 The Civil Rights Movement as a Religious Revival | 87 | (18) | |
| 6 Broken Churches, Broken Race: White Southern Religious Leadership and the Decline of White Supremacy | 105 | (26) | |
| 7 Pulpit versus Pew | 131 | (22) | |
| 8 Segregationist Thought in Crisis: What the Movement Was Up Against | 153 | (26) | |
| Conclusions: Gamaliel, Caesar, and Us | 179 | (12) | |
| Appendix: A Philosophical Note on Historical Explanation | 191 | (4) | |
| Notes | 195 | (98) | |
| Archival and Manuscript Sources | 293 | (4) | |
| Bibliographical Essay | 297 | (30) | |
| Acknowledgments | 327 | (4) | |
| Index | 331 |
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