Preface
Introduction
1954
1 Mordecai Johnson, Emancipation Day Address
2 Charles P. Bowles, A Cool Head and a Warm Heart
3 A. Powell Davies, The Supreme Court Decision
4 Frank P. Graham, Speech to Council of Christian Relations
5 Mary McLeod Bethune, Full IntegrationāAmerica's Newest Challenge
6 Benjamin E. Mays, The Church Amidst Ethnic and Racial Tensions
7 J. R. Brokhoff, The Disturbing Christ
8 William Lloyd Imes, The Challenge of Integration...
1955
9 Sarah Patton Boyle, Speech to Calvary Christian Church
10 Sarah Patton Boyle, Speech to Covington Ministerial Association
11 William Lloyd Imes, Abraham Then, and Now
12 James Hudson, Toward World Brotherhood
13 Mary McLeod Bethune, Spiritual Rearmament
14 Roy Wilkins, Address at Memorial Meeting for Rev. George W. Lee
15 Albert D'Orlando, Do We Still Need Do-Gooders?
16 T. R. M. Howard, Terror Reigns in Mississippi
17 Mamie Till-Bradley, I Want You to Know What They Did to My Boy
18 Robbins Ralph, I'm Glad I was Born White...
19 Sarah Patton Boyle, Feed My Sheep
1956
20 Branch Rickey, One Hundred Percent Wrong Club
21 Paul N. Carnes, Drifting is Dangerous
22 J. R. Brokhoff, A Lesson on Tolerance
23 Horace Mann Bond, A Cigarette for Johnnie Birchfield
24 James Hudson, Where to Look for Victory
25 T. R. M. Howard, Mississippi's Challenge in this Grave Hour
26 Roy Wilkins, Speech to National Baptist Convention, Denver
27 D. Perry Ginn, Christians and Desegregation
1957
28 P. D. East, The South, Collectively, is a Patient Most Ill
29 Martin Luther King, Jr., The Role of the Church...
30 James A. Pike, Report of the Interracial Leadership Conference
31 Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Address...
32 Adam Clayton Powell, Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
33 A. Philip Randolph, Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
34 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, A Faith for Difficult and Critical Times
35 Channing H. Tobias, Address to the 48th Annual NAACP Convention
36 Shad Polier, Walk to Freedom
37 Marion A. Boggs, The Crucial Test of Christian Citizenship
38 A. Powell Davies, The Meaning of Little Rock
39 Marion A. Wright, Integration and Public Morals
1958
40 James R. Bullock, The Ministry of Reconciliation
41 J. R. Brokhoff, Life's Inevitables-Three Things You Cannot Stop
42 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Meeting of the Fair Share Organization
1959
43 Chester Bowles, A Fresh Look at Race Relations
44 Max D. Davidson, Address at the 50th Anniversary of the NAACP
45 Colbert S. Cartwright, The Ministry of Reconciliation
46 Carlos E. Martin, Of This Gospel I was Made a Minister
47 Edward Hughes Pruden, Christianity and Racial Tensions
1960
48 LeRoy Collins, To the People of Florida on Race Relations
49 James Lawson, Speech at Shaw University
50 Everett Tilson, Segregation and the Ten Commandments
51 Benjamin E. Mays, Challenge to Overcome...
52 Frank P. Graham, Students "Standing Up" for the American Dream
53 Edler Garnet Hawkins, Behaving Like Ordinary Men
54 Will D. Campbell, Witnessing...
55 LeRoy Collins, Speech to the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith
1961
56 Haywood N. Hill, This I Believe
57 Colbert S. Cartwright, Some Stern Words of Jesus
58 William O. Byrd, Mistakes I Have Made in Race Relations
59 Robert J. McCracken, The Christian Way in Race Relations
60 Duncan Howlett, The Untold Story of the Sit-Ins
61 Ralph David Abernathy, Trying to Get Home Without Jesus
62 Marion A. Wright, The Minister as Citizen
63 James McBride Dabbs, Who Speaks for the South?
1962
64 Heslip "Happy" Lee, Hidden Persuaders in Human Relations
65 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Call for Reason...
66 Robert H. Walkup, Not Race but Grace
67 Robert H. Walkup, Speech at the University of Mississippi
68 Charles L. Stanford, Jr., Love Disqualified
69 Duncan M. Gray, Jr., Paranoia, Guilt, and Atonement
70 George A. Chauncey, The Worship God Wants
71 James McBride Dabbs, The Moving Finger Writes in Mississippi
72 James McBride Dabbs, To Define Our Love
73 Marion King, Reflections on the Death of a Child
1963
74 J. Claude Evans, The Christian Faith and Race
75 James A. Pike, Speech at a Church and Race Relations Conference
76 Edler Garnet Hawkins, This Is the Mood and This Is the Time
77 Wyatt Tee Walker, Broadcast on KPFA, Los Angeles May 28, 1963
78 J. V. Cosby Summerell, The Testing of Our Faith
79 James Bevel, Speech at the Flamingo Club
80 Bruce William Klunder, Untitled Sermon
81 Eugene Carson Blake, Law and Order and Christian Duty
82 Francis Gerald Ensley, On Loving One's Neighbor as Oneself
83 Eugene Carson Blake, Late We Come
84 Patrick O'Boyle, Invocation...
85 John Lewis, Speech at the March on Washington...
86 Charles Morgan, Jr., Who Is Guilty in Birmingham?
87 George H. Woodard, Some Important Differences
88 Dick Gregory, Speech at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
89 Arthur E. Shelton, Let's Face the World
90 Frank T. Wilson, Golgotha 1964
91 Dave Dennis, Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally
92 Dave Dennis, A Modern Day Moses
93 Aaron Henry, Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally
94 James McBride Dabbs, The Myth, the Movement...
95 Duncan Howlett, The Two Way Barrier
96 David G. Colwell, As if in a Foreign Country
97 Robert W. Spike, Division of Home Missions
98 Lawrence Campbell, Danville Christian Progressive Association
1964
99 Ella Josephine Baker, Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally
100 Edward W. Harris, A Methodist Pastor and Race Relations
101 L. Wilson Kilgore, Countdown on Human Worth
102 Duncan Howlett, Report from the South
103 James McBride Dabbs, Christian Response to Racial Revolution
104 Mildred Bell Johnson, Deep are the Roots
105 Ralph David Abernathy, Love and Race Relations
106 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, The National Civil Rights Crises...
107 Thomas Merton, Some Points...
108 Robert W. Spike, Address to the 55th Annual NAACP Convention
109 Albert D'Orlando, The Long, Hot Summer
110 Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Address at Medgar Evers Memorial Service
111 Robert W. Spike, Sermon at Deering Community Church
112 Dave Dennis and Edwin King , Funeral Service for James Chaney
113 Fannie Lou Hamer, Untitled Speech
114 Theodore M. Hesburgh, Moral Dimensions...
115 Robert J. McCracken, Civil Rights and Christian Duties
1965
116 Kelly Miller Smith, The Misfits
117 Civil Rights Hearings, Religious Panel, February 20, 1965
118 Charles F. Wittenstein, Jews, Justice and Liberalism
119 Duncan Howlett, Report from Alabama and Mississippi
120 Albert D'Orlando, In Memoriam... James Reeb
121 Roy Wilkins, Eulogy at Memorial Service for James Reeb
122 Robert A. Reed, To Be a Man
123 Duncan Howlett, The Moral Stature of the Civil Rights Movement
124 Morris B. Abram, Address...
125 Jonathan Daniels, Untitled Paper Read Posthumously
126 Daniel Berrigan, Dear Friends in Christ
127 Ralph David Abernathy, A Christian Movement in a Revolutionary Age
128 Kelly Miller Smith, Trek Toward the Dawn
129 Gardner C. Taylor, Some Comments on Race Hate
130 Theodore Parker Ferris, Civil Rights from a Christian Point of View
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