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For years Southern minister Francis X. Walter was silent about the
injustices of Jim Crow, blinded by the status quo, until the
violent killing of a fellow priest during the civil rights
movement. From Preaching to Meddling is the story of how Walter
turned from passive objector to outspoken agitator, marked with
Walter's humor and personal recollections of the most formative
period of modern American history. In a fascinating, funny,
sometimes searing memoir, retired Episcopal priest Francis X.
Walter shares his journey from the days of the Great Depression in
Mobile, Alabama, across decades of Deep South segregation, and into
the interracial struggles for racial justice and freedom in
Alabama. The founder of the Selma Inter-religious Project,
Walter’s story includes growing up in multi-ethnic, segregated
Mobile and learning life lessons at theology schools in Sewanee and
New York. Those disparate educations are described as prelude to
his years as an Episcopal priest navigating how to serve white
parishes in Alabama while challenging the racism that most
congregants believed was a God-given right. After a tragic murder
of a fellow priest shortly after the Selma to Montgomery March in
1965, Walter moves from pastoring to segregationists to agitating
against them as he becomes a committed supporter of the struggles
for civil rights and racial justice in George Wallace’s Alabama.
From Preaching to Meddling is a personal chronicle of some of
Alabama’s local civil rights struggles and of the memoirist’s
own struggles with faith and fault. While recounting the people and
communities he joined in fighting against the white South’s
racial order in rural Alabama, Walter candidly shares his own
questions, dilemmas, and perceptions of his own shortcomings. His
is an engaging portrait of momentous times and of himself as both
conflicted priest and crusading white Southerner.
Remembered by some as the "most remarkable Supreme Court justice of
the twentieth century," Justice Hugo L. Black was an early
proponent of a judicial revolution that rebuilt America by
expanding individual rights under the law and empowering the
federal government to address America’s economic and social
problems. In large part through Black’s persistence and
influence, the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the Bill of
Rights and other key amendments helped to unleash human
productivity, economic prosperity, and civil rights across the
nation. Justice Black almost always carried a pocket edition of the
Constitution. In his reverence for and belief in it, Black called
it "the best document in the world" to guide a government "of the
people, by the people, and for the people." He believed that
everyone should own a copy of the Constitution. This modern pocket
edition of the U.S. Constitution and its amendments is inspired by
Justice Black’s habit and example. The introduction is by
biographer Steve Suitts, author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His
Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the
Constitution.
School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure
underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has
grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The rhetoric of
school choice, however, resembles that of segregationists following
Brown v. Board, who closed public schools and funded private
institutions to block African American students from integrating
with their white peers. In Overturning Brown, Steve Suitts examines
the parallels between de facto segregationist policies and the
modern school choice movement to expose the dangers lying behind
the so-called civil rights policies of Betsy DeVos and the
education privatization lobbies. Economic and educational disparity
has expanded exponentially in the years following Brown v. Board,
and post-Jim Crow discriminatory policies drive inequality and
poverty today. It is only through recognizing the smoke and mirrors
that Suitts deftly exposes in Overturning Brown that we understand
the risk America’s underprivileged youth face with school voucher
programs and as public funds are funneled into charter schools and
predominately white and wealthy private schools.
In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement,
Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in
Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in
voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression.
A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized
today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that crucial,
tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much
longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not
only between Blacks and whites in Alabama but between white
political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts
recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in
Alabama as an unremitting, decades- long sectional battle in
white-only politics between the state’s rural Black Belt and
north Alabama counties. He uncovers important Black and white
heroes and villains who collectively shaped the arc of voting
rights in Alabama and ultimately across the nation. A War of
Sections offers a new understanding of the political dynamics of
resistance and change through which a southern state’s
longstanding democratic failures ironically provided motivation for
and instruction to a reluctant nation regarding unmatched ways to
advance universal voting. Along the way, the book introduces from
this unheard past some prophetic voices that speak to the paramount
issues of America’s commitment to the universal right to
vote—then and now.
In a fascinating memoir, retired Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter
shares his journey from the days of the Great Depression in Mobile,
Alabama, across decades of Deep South segregation, and into the
interracial struggles for racial justice in Alabama. The founder of
the Selma Inter-religious Project, Walter grew up in multiethnic,
segregated Mobile and learned life lessons at theology schools in
Sewanee and New York. Those disparate educations were a prelude to
his years as an Episcopal priest navigating how to serve white
parishes in Alabama while challenging systemic racism.
In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement,
Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in
Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in
voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression.
A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized
today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that crucial,
tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much
longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not
only between Blacks and whites in Alabama but between white
political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts
recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in
Alabama as an unremitting, decades- long sectional battle in
white-only politics between the state’s rural Black Belt and
north Alabama counties. He uncovers important Black and white
heroes and villains who collectively shaped the arc of voting
rights in Alabama and ultimately across the nation. A War of
Sections offers a new understanding of the political dynamics of
resistance and change through which a southern state’s
longstanding democratic failures ironically provided motivation for
and instruction to a reluctant nation regarding unmatched ways to
advance universal voting. Along the way, the book introduces from
this unheard past some prophetic voices that speak to the paramount
issues of America’s commitment to the universal right to
vote—then and now.
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