Charles Eagles, Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, is the author of several books, including Democracy Delayed: Congressional Reapportionment and Urban-Rural Conflict in the 1920s, and editor of The Civil Rights Movement in America.
"A very good book. . . . The story of Jonathan Daniels and Tom Coleman is complex, ambiguous, and multi-layered. Eagles is attuned to its nuances and explores them sensitively." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World|"Outside Agitator is a riveting history that uses the life and death of Jon Daniels to examine the religious faith that animated some of the white volunteers who went south in the early 1960s. We know how central the black church was to black participants in the movement, but we have less of a sense of how religious and theological impulses motivated many of the white volunteers. . . . Eagles has given us a rich and important book." —Wiliam H. Chafe, New York Times Book Review
More than four decades ago, political scientist V.O. Key Jr. observed in his classic Southern Politics in State and Nation that whites in Southern ``Black Belt'' counties were the most staunch supporters of racial segregation and white supremacy. Historian Eagles examines the events surrounding the shooting death of civil rights worker and Episcopalian seminary student Jon Daniels in one Black Belt county (Lowndes) of Alabama in 1965. Eagles's account of how Daniels came to be in Alabama and his work there is both well researched and emotionally moving. Readers seeking a broader overview of events in Alabama during this turbulent time may consult Carl Elliot Sr. with Michael D'Orso's The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman ( LJ 2/1/92). A valuable addition to public and academic collections on the civil rights movement.-- Thomas H. Ferrell, Univ . of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette
"A very good book. . . . The story of Jonathan Daniels and Tom Coleman is complex, ambiguous, and multi-layered. Eagles is attuned to its nuances and explores them sensitively." -Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World|"Outside Agitator is a riveting history that uses the life and death of Jon Daniels to examine the religious faith that animated some of the white volunteers who went south in the early 1960s. We know how central the black church was to black participants in the movement, but we have less of a sense of how religious and theological impulses motivated many of the white volunteers. . . . Eagles has given us a rich and important book." -Wiliam H. Chafe, New York Times Book Review
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