civil rights movement

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

historian

is a movement that was an attack not simply on segregated institutions but on the white southerners' Christian faith that supported those institutions.

mays knew, as historian Joseph Crespino has recently argued, that 'the civil rights movement was an attack not simply on segregated institutions but on the set of ideologies that supported those institutions and, by extension, on white southerners' theological worldviews. the religious nature of the southern civil rights struggle forced white southerners to explain anew the relationship between their christian faith and their segregationist practice'

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