Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975

Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History


Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Mississippians’ intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality.


During the civil rights movement and since, it...