From preaching to meddling : a white minister in the civil rights movement

Walter, Francis X., Rev., (author.). Suitts, Steve, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

While recounting the people and communities he joined in fighting against the white South's racial order in rural Alabama, Walter candidly shares questions, dilemmas, and perceptions of his own shortcomings. His is an engaging portrait of momentous times and of himself as both conflicted priest and crusading white Southerner.

Record details

ISBN: 9781588383907 (hardcover)
ISBN: 1588383903 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xi, 335 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Publisher: Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 322-325) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Four Times With Dr. King -- 2.Boss Hague Pols Teach Seminar -- 3.Did You Ever Get Shot At Or Beat Up ? Part II -- 4.Roots: Mobile And Mon Louis Island -- 5.A Creole Look-Ahead Correction -- 6.To Spring Hill And School -- 7.My Father's Love -- 8.Books To Edify The White Southern Child -- 9.Max And Me -- 10.High School -- 11.The Michael Sisters -- 12.Nice Parents -- The Michaels And Simisons -- 13.Seminary And Racism -- 14.New York City, General Seminary -- 15.At Christ Church, Mobile 1958 -- 16.Family Grief -- 17.A Call To Good Shepherd -- 18.To Mobile -- 19.Meeting With Good Shepherd's Vestry -- 20.Capitulation -- 21.Misses Gladys And Victoria -- 22.Eufaula: Segregation In Moderation -- 23.The Sexton's Father -- 24.Shaking Hands -- 25.David Frost Jr., Eufaula Historian -- 26.Ditches To Die In Or Avoid -- 27.Dining Room And Kitchen -- 28.Confirmation Class, 1959, Eufaula -- 29.Carl And Anne, Eufaula 1959 -- 30.Charity Vs. Social Justice -- 31.Leaving Eufaula -- 32.Breitling Cousins Dissed By Miss Amelia -- 33.Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter Tries To Cope -- 34.Beginning Of The Selma Project -- 35.Jonathan Daniels Is Murdered -- 36.Twelve Tons Of Books And Miss Lilly Walker -- 37.Setding Into Life In Tuscaloosa -- 38.Selma Project's Evolving Office Space -- 39.Another Way To Steal From The Poor -- 1965 -- 40.Retaining Control After The War -- 41.The Freedom Quilting Bee -- 42.Cahaba -- 43.Me And The Bishop, Licensed In Alabama -- 44.Adoption And Revelation -- 45.Excursus On Two Bishops: No Baby -- 46.Newsletter Report Of Selma Project's Activities -- 47.Lois Deslond's Surprise Birthday Party -- 48.Day Care -- 49.Comparing The Small To The Great.