{"product_id":"lift-up-your-voice-like-michael-b-friedland-9780807846469","title":"Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the Supreme Court declared in 1954 that segregated public\u003cbr\u003eschools were unconstitutional, the highest echelons of\u003cbr\u003eProtestant, Catholic, and Jewish religious organizations\u003cbr\u003eenthusiastically supported the ruling, and black civil rights\u003cbr\u003eworkers expected and actively sought the cooperation of their\u003cbr\u003ewhite religious cohorts. Many white southern clergy, however, \u003cbr\u003ewere outspoken in their defense of segregation, and even those\u003cbr\u003ewho supported integration were wary of risking their positions by\u003cbr\u003eurging parishioners to act on their avowed religious beliefs in a\u003cbr\u003ecommon humanity. Those who did so found themselves abandoned by friends, attacked by white supremacists, and often driven from\u003cbr\u003etheir communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Friedland here offers a collective biography of several\u003cbr\u003esouthern and nationally known white religious leaders who did\u003cbr\u003estep forward to join the major social protest movements of the\u003cbr\u003emid-twentieth century, lending their support first to the civil\u003cbr\u003erights movement and later to protests over American involvement\u003cbr\u003ein Vietnam. Profiling such activists as William Sloane Coffin\u003cbr\u003eJr., Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Eugene\u003cbr\u003eCarson Blake, Robert McAfee Brown, and Will D. Campbell, he\u003cbr\u003ereveals the passions and commitment behind their involvement in these protests and places their actions in the context of a burgeoning ecumenical movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael B. Friedland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807846465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807846469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.13w x 0.84d","brand":"Michael B. Friedland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013791756543,"sku":"9780807846469","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3179630d-7e49-438b-83e5-af43056ab67b.jpg?v=1767744794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lift-up-your-voice-like-michael-b-friedland-9780807846469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}