God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights 9780691206998

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Copyright © 1997 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street , Princeton , New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street , Woodstock , Oxfordshire 0X20 1TW All Rights Reserved First published 1997 Paperback edition , 1999 Reissue , with a new preface by the author, 2008 ISBN 978-0-691-13067-5

The Library of Congress has cataloged the first edition of this book as follows Marsh , Charles, 1958Gods long summer : stories of faith and civil rights / Charles Marsh. p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-02134-1 (cloth : alk . paper) 1. Afro- Americans— Civil rights— Mississippi— History— 20 th century. 2 . Civil rights movements— Mississippi— History— 20th century. 3. Civil rights— Mississippi— Religious aspects— Christianity. 4. Civil rights workers— Religious life — Mississippi — History— 20 th century. 5. Mississippi— Race relations. 6 . Mississippi— Church history— 20th century. I . Title . E 185.93. M6 M 26 1997 97-10668 305.896 ' 0730762— dc 21 British Library Cataloging-in- Publication Data is available Elizabeth Sewell , “ Ballad , ” from “ Five Mississippi Poems, ” reprinted from Signs and Cities ( Chapel Hill , University of North Carolina Press, 1968) . This book has been composed in Berkeley Book

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