The Last Days: A Son's Story Of Sin And Segregation At The Dawn Of A New South - Softcover

Marsh, Charles

 
9780465044191: The Last Days: A Son's Story Of Sin And Segregation At The Dawn Of A New South
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465044190 ISBN 13: 9780465044191
Verlag: Basic Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Seeking to come to terms with the haunting memories of his childhood in the deep South-Charles Marsh has crafted a memoir of small-town Southern life caught up in the whirlwind of the Civil Rights movement. As minister of the First Baptist Church in Laurel, Mississippi, Charles Marsh's father Bob Marsh, was a prominent man who was beloved by the community. But Laurel was also home to Sam Bowers, the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Mississippi KKK and the director of their daily, unchallenged installments of terror and misery. Bowers was known and tolerated by the entire white community of Laurel. This included Bob Marsh, who struggled to do the right thing while reeling between righteous indignation and moral torpor, only slowly awakening to fear, suffering, and guilt over his unwillingness to take a public stand against Bowers. At the same time, The Last Days examines the collision of worlds once divided-white Protestant conservatism, the African American struggle for civil rights, and late 1960s counter culture-that propelled the dramatic changes in everyday life in a small Southern town.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Marsh is Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and Director of the Project on Lived Theology. He is the author of several award-winning books, including Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God's Long Summer, and The Last Days, and coauthor of Welcoming Justice. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465044190
ISBN 13 
9780465044191
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307
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