Outside Agitator tells the dramatic, largely forgotten storybehind the 1965 killing of civil rights worker Jonathan Myrick . I bought this book because our church is organizing a Civil Rights Pilgrimage for youth/adults in March 2019
Outside Agitator tells the dramatic, largely forgotten storybehind the 1965 killing of civil rights worker Jonathan Myrick "Jon" Daniels in Lowndes County. I bought this book because our church is organizing a Civil Rights Pilgrimage for youth/adults in March 2019. I am currently writing the curriculum to accompany the trip. One of these figures is Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a martyred Episcopal seminarian who was viewed as "an outside agitator".
In Outside Agitators, Eagles' innovative use of the social history of Lowndes County uncovers important details of a little known . Citation: George Baca.
In Outside Agitators, Eagles' innovative use of the social history of Lowndes County uncovers important details of a little known story in a forgotten place that nonetheless challenges conventional views of the Civil Rights Movement. Moreover, his depiction of this event, at a momentous juncture in American history yields important insights into the transformation of the civil rights struggle from a movement to a federal institution.
Outside Agitator book. Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. by. Charles W. Eagles.
Charles W. Eagles has taught history at the University of Mississippi since 1983. His books include Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and The Civil Rights Movement in America. The Price of Defiance. Civil Rights, Culture Wars. One fee. Stacks of books.
The second was civil rights activist and writer Constance Curry in 1996 and again last year for her work on Bob Zellner's memoir. This year Dr. Charles Eagles becomes the third. Dr. Eagles is the William F. Winter Professor of History at the University of Mississiippi. He first won the Lillian Smith Book Award in 1993 for Outside Agitator; John Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
Outside Agitator tells the dramatic, largely forgotten story behind the 1965 killing of civil rights worker Jon Daniels in Lowndes County, Alabama, by detailing the lives of killer and victim. A white Episcopal seminary student from New Hampshire, Jon Daniels helped organize blacks in Selma during the aftermath of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. Eagles for Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, University of North Carolina Press. William Baldwin for The Hard To Catch Mercy, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Margaret Rose Gladney for How Am I To Be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith, University of North Carolina Press. Amy Louise Wood, for Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, University of North Carolina Press.
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Daniels was the subject of historian Charles Eagles' book Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama (1993), which won the Lillian Smith Award that year. The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast sponsor a yearly pilgrimage in Hayneville on August 14, to commemorate Daniels and all other martyrs of the civil rights movement. Virginia Military Institute created the Jonathan Daniels Humanitarian Award in 1998; awardees include former President Jimmy Carter