civil rights

Excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family.

When I was 14, in the summer of 1964, I lived with my family in Millington, Tennessee, just north of Memphis.

In the summer of 1973, I was the director of the Selma Inter-religious Project in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Selma Project was a support organization for civil rights activists working in small towns located in the rural Black Belt across central and southern Alabama, southern Mississippi, and the Florida panhandle.