The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest
and commitment to equality, were castigated by the Reverend Martin
Luther King Jr. for not showing up on the streets to support the
civil rights movement. "Daily Demonstrators" shows how the civil
rights movement played out in Mennonite homes and churches from the
1940s through the 1960s.
In the first book to bring together Mennonite religious history
and civil rights movement history, Tobin Miller Shearer discusses
how the civil rights movement challenged Mennonites to explore
whether they, within their own church, were truly as committed to
racial tolerance and equality as they might like to believe.
Shearer shows the surprising role of children in overcoming the
racial stereotypes of white adults. Reflecting the transformation
taking place in the nation as a whole, Mennonites had to go through
their own civil rights struggle before they came to accept
interracial marriages and integrated congregations.
Based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes,
diaries, and journals of white and African-American Mennonites,
this fascinating book further illuminates the role of race in
modern American religion.
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