Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation

by Stephen R. Haynes

Book Overview

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers.

In The Last Segregated Hour, Stephen Haynes tells the story of this dramatic yet little studied tactic which was the strategy of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195395050
• ISBN13: 9780195395051
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Long End if Church Segregation

This well researched and thoughtful book covers the non-violent confrontations at church doors of segregated white churches which occurred during the 1960’s across the nation, centered in the South, and specifically in the author’s location at Rhodes College in Memphis. Beautifully written and edited by Presbyterian minister and scholar Stephen Haynes