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By Stephen R. Haynes

On Palm Sunday 1964, on the moment Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a gaggle of black and white scholars begun a "kneel-in" to protest the church's coverage of segregation, a protest that might proceed in a single shape or one other for greater than a 12 months and finally strength the church to open its doorways to black worshippers. within the final Segregated Hour, Stephen Haynes tells the tale of this dramatic but little studied tactic which was once the tactic of selection for bringing awareness to segregationist rules in Southern church buildings. "Kneel-ins" concerned shock visits to exact church buildings, frequently in the course of Easter season, and infrequently led to actual standoffs with resistant church humans. The spectacle of kneeling worshippers barred from coming into church buildings made for a robust photo that invited either neighborhood and nationwide media cognizance. The Memphis kneel-ins of 1964-65 have been precise in that the protesters incorporated white scholars from the neighborhood Presbyterian collage (Southwestern, now Rhodes). and as the protesting scholars awarded themselves in teams that have been "mixed" through race and gender, white church individuals observed the visitations as a antagonistic provocation and answered with extraordinary efforts to finish them. but if Church officers confused Southwestern president Peyton Rhodes to "call off" his scholars or hazard monetary reprisals, he replied that "Southwestern isn't really for sale." Drawing on quite a lot of assets, together with broad interviews with the scholars who led the kneel-ins, Haynes tells an inspiring tale that might charm not just to students of faith and background, but additionally to pastors and church humans all for fostering racially diversified congregations.

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