God’s Long Summer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Marsh
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: History and religion
- Time of Work: 1962-1968
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Fannie Lou Hamer, Cleveland Sellers, William Douglas Hudgins, Edwin King, Sam Bowers
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Civil rights, Segregation or integration, Social action, 1960’s, South or Southerners, Sin or Original sin, Christianity, Ku Klux Klan
- Locales: Mississippi
The 1980’s and the 1990’s witnessed the rise, within the Republican Party, of a religious right wing that denounced sex education in the public schools and the notion of a woman’s right to an abortion, while championing prayer in the public schools. In conflicts over such issues, the forces of religious fervor were usually arrayed on only one side of the issue. When secular liberals complained about the injection of religion into politics by such men of the cloth as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, they were brusquely reminded by religious rightists of an era when liberals had...
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