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3 “Visitors in Hell”: Church Involvement in the Movement in Mississippi
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Published:May 1993
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Like raw recruits entering battle for the first time, the Commission on Religion and Race seemed intent on tasting and testing every facet of the civil rights struggle in the first months of its existence. As we have noted, activist white church leaders wanted to move quickly in part to “catch up,” and thus perhaps to assuage pangs of guilt for not having moved much at all previously. Edler Hawkins, widely respected black activist and Presbyterian minister, drove this point home at the first meeting of the commission when he noted that the church had been “silent too frequently, and even when it has spoken, it has not used its own distinctive language to stress . . . the moral dimension of this issue.” A bit later another person on the commission spoke of being “chagrined by the remembrance of our hesitancy and expediency in the years just past.”1 Or perhaps people wanted to embrace the entire spectrum of possibilities as protection against feelings of inadequacy, of lack of experience and understanding. Better than most, Robert Spike was able to voice those misgivings in the summer and fall of 1963.
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