Dixie Heretic : The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy / Tennant McWilliams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWilliams, Tennant S., 1943- author.

Series:

Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)

Religion and American Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennedy, Renwick C., 1900?-1985.

Kennedy, Renwick C.

United States. Army.

United States.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Civil rights.

Presbyterian Church--Clergy.

Presbyterian Church.

Wilcox County (Ala.)--Race relations--Political aspects.

Wilcox County (Ala.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2023]

Summary:

A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C.Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, and extensive interviews, Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C.Kennedy offers a life-and-times biography of the Alabama Black Belt minister, Renwick C.Kennedy (1900-1985).

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Overture: They Were Two

Part I. Mandated Idealist, 1900-1945

1. Origins

2. Evolution

3. The Wilcox Move

4. Dual Mandates

5. At Bay

6. Attack

7. More Attack

8. All-Out War

Part II. Tormented Pragmatist, 1945-1985

9. "Home, Again"

10. Somewhere to Go

11. The Limits of Ascent

12. Wallace's Troy

13. Breakfast at Ren's

Coda: What He Was

Appendix: The Writings of Renwick C. Kennedy

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Maps

Illustrations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9455-9

OCLC:

1399450820