Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet

<p>When the Supreme Court declared in 1954 that segregated public<br/>schools were unconstitutional the highest echelons of<br/>Protestant Catholic and Jewish religious organizations<br/>enthusiastically supported the ruling and black civil rights<br/>workers expected and actively sought the cooperation of their<br/>white religious cohorts. Many white southern clergy however<br/>were outspoken in their defense of segregation and even those<br/>who supported integration were wary of risking their positions by<br/>urging parishioners to act on their avowed religious beliefs in a<br/>common humanity. Those who did so found themselves abandoned by friends attacked by white supremacists and often driven from<br/>their communities.<br/><p><br/>Michael Friedland here offers a collective biography of several<br/>southern and nationally known white religious leaders who did<br/>step forward to join the major social protest movements of the<br/>mid-twentieth century lending their support first to the civil<br/>rights movement and later to protests over American involvement<br/>in Vietnam. Profiling such activists as William Sloane Coffin<br/>Jr. Daniel and Philip Berrigan Abraham Joshua Heschel Eugene<br/>Carson Blake Robert McAfee Brown and Will D. Campbell he<br/>reveals the passions and commitment behind their involvement in these protests and places their actions in the context of a burgeoning ecumenical movement.</p>