A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

David L. Chappell

Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004 - Political Science - 344 pages

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas af

About the author

David L. Chappell is Rothbaum Professor of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow; Online access: HeinOnLine HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice
• Author: David L. Chappell
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004
• ISBN: 080782819X, 9780807828199
• Length: 344 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Civil Rights; Religion / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Sociology of Religion