Fighting the Good Fight
by Houston Bryan Roberson
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The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church played an important role in the Civil Rights movement-it was the backbone of the Montgomery bus boycott, which served as a model for other grassroots demonstrations and which also propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. into the national spotlight.Roberson chronicles five generations in the life of this congregation. He uses it as a lens through which to explore how the church functioned as a formative social, cultural, and political institution within a show more racially fractured and continually shifting cultural and civil landscape. Roberson highlights some show less
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Houston Bryan Roberson is Associate Professor of History at the University of the South
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History
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- 286.1 — Religion Christian denominations Baptist, Restoration movement, Adventist churches Calvinistic or Regular
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- BX6480 .M6 .R63 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Protestantism Other Protestant denominations Baptists Individual Baptist churches
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