Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture by Jim Willis

Author:Jim Willis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2019-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

Civil Rights Movement as an Influence

Certainly, the civil rights movement, led by Dr. Martin Luther King in the South, had intersections with how many Americans viewed the role of churches in helping spearhead needed social change and equality among races. In many ways, the civil rights movement was also a spiritual movement that arose out of the black churches in the South and combined the traditions of African American churches with the gospel of social change. The roots of nonviolent protest can be traced to the biblical underpinnings of the black churches in America, and they also drew inspiration from the nonviolent protest movement in India begun by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 to protest British rule over that country. Says writer Paul Harvey of the American civil rights movement and its association with black churches:

The historically racist grounding of whiteness as dominant and blackness as inferior was radically overturned in part through the re-imagination of the same Christian part that was part of creating it in the first place. In similar ways, the Mexican-American farm movement drew on the mystic Catholic spirituality of Cesar Chavez and brought to national consciousness the lives and aspirations of an oppressed agricultural proletariat that lacked the most elementary rights of American citizens. (Harvey, 2016)

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