Stephen R Haynes: 2 books
The Last Segregated Hour
The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
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...
Noah's Curse
The Biblical Justification of American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2002
"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for...