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  • And the Criminals with Him

    Essays in Honor of Will D. Campbell and All the Reconciled

    Edited by Will D. Campbell, Richard C. Goode ...
    In 1972, Will Campbell published an issue of the Committee of Southern Churchmen's journal, Katallagete, to shed light on the US prison system. None could anticipate how the system would expand exponentially in the next four decades. Today, the US operates the world's largest prison system, incarcerating nearly 1 in every 100 American adults. How did this expansion happen? What is the human toll ... Read more

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  • Crashing the Idols

    The Vocation of Will D. Campbell (and any other Christian for that matter)

    by Will D. Campbell, Richard C. Goode ...
    If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "the right" and purportedly using their powers for "the good," then Will D. Campbell is one of the foremost prophets in American religious history. Like Clarence Jordan and Dorothy Day, Campbell incarnates the radical iconoclastic vocation of standing in contraposition to society, naming and ... Read more

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  • Writings on Reconciliation and Resistance

    by Will D. Campbell ...
    If prophets are called to unveil and expose the illegitimacy of those principalities masquerading as "the right" and purportedly using their powers for "the good," then Will D. Campbell is one of the foremost prophets in American religious history. Like Clarence Jordan and Dorothy Day, Campbell incarnates the radical iconoclastic vocation of standing in contraposition to society, naming and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House

    by Will D. Campbell ...
    This biographical profile written by one of the South's most notable authors traces the life of Robert George Clark Jr. (1928-2025) from his Jim Crow boyhood in Ebenezer, Mississippi, through his notable career as the first Black Mississippian since Reconstruction to be elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives.In this compelling book Will D. Campbell fuses Clark's family history with ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Brother to a Dragonfly

    by Will D. Campbell ...
    Series series Banner Books
    In Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell (1924–2013) writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit family and cared for each other, the two went on to lead very different lives. After serving together in World War II, Will became a highly educated Baptist minister who later became a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Forty Acres and a Goat

    by Will D. Campbell ...
    Series series Banner Books
    In Forty Acres and a Goat, Will D. Campbell (1924–2013) picks up where the award-winning Brother to a Dragonfly leaves off, accounting his adventures during the tumultuous civil rights era. As he navigates through the explosive 1960s, including pivotal moments like the integration of Little Rock High School and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Brother Will finds his faith ... Read more

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    The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar takes a revealing journey through the Southern US in a " vivid contemporary portrait of rural life " ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution).Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming the globe and writing of his experiences with remote people and far-flung places. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to a corner of America—the Deep South. On a ... Read more

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  • Remembering Jim Crow

    African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

    Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad ...
    This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever ... Read more

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  • The Most They Ever Had

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    The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story; not of ... Read more

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  • Praying for Sheetrock

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    by Melissa Fay Greene ...
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  • The Studs Terkel Reader

    My American Century

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    With a foreword by Robert Coles and a preface by Calvin Trillin.The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his wonderful original introductions to each book. Featuring selections from American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, "The Good War, The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race, and Working, this ... Read more

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