Notes

Prologue

1. John M. Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2006).

2. A. W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: A Journey into the Father’s Heart, vol. 1 (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread Publishers, 2003), 61.

3. Frederick Douglass, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” speech, Rochester, NY, July 5, 1852.

Chapter 1  Side by Side (but Not Together)

1. Hunter Bear, homepage, hunterbear.org/jackson.htm, last accessed June 22, 2016.

2. Ward Shaefer, “King Edward Re-opening Today,” Jackson Free Press, December 16, 2009.

3. “Races in Jackson, MS (2013),” City-Data, accessed January 6, 2016, http://www.city-data.com/city/Jackson-Mississippi.html.

4. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963.

Chapter 2  That We Might Be One

1. Alex A. Alston Jr. and James L. Dickerson, Devil’s Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2009), 193.

2. Fellowship Memphis Church, “Our Dream,” accessed January 6, 2016, http://www.fellowshipmemphis.org/about-us/our-dream/.

Chapter 3  Poor Whites

1. Fannie Kemble, Fanny Kemble’s Journals, ed. Catherine Clinton (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 62.

Chapter 4  Fighting without Fists

1. Martin Luther King Jr., “Address to the First Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting,” speech, Montgomery, AL, December 5, 1955, available on Martin Luther King Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle, http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/the_addres_to_the_first_montgomery_improvement_association_mia_mass_meeting.1.html.

Chapter 5  The Three Rs

1. Lao Tzu, “Quotable Quotes,” Goodreads, accessed August 1, 2016, http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/215411-go-to-the-people-live-with-them-learn-from-them.

2. Oxfam, Working for the Few: Political Capture and Economic Equality, January 2014, https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-for-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-200114-summ-en.pdf.

Chapter 9  Affirming Human Dignity

1. The phrase “Somebody’s Daughter” was inspired by the song “Somebody’s Daughter,” John Mandeville and Steve Siler, 2005, Lifestyle of Worship Music BMI / Silerland Music ASCAP.

2. Cheryl Miller, The Language of Shalom: 7 Keys to Practical Reconciliation (Victoria, TX: Quantum Circles Press, 2012), 61–69.

3. Fanny J. Crosby, “Blessed Assurance,” Hymns Unto God, last accessed June 27, 2016, http://www.hymnsuntogod.org/Hymns-PD/B-Hymns/Blessed-Assurance.html.

Chapter 10  The Final Fight

1. A. W. Tozer, “The Genesis of Our Christian Faith,” in A Disruptive Faith, ed. James L. Snyder (Ventura, CA: Gospel Light, 2011), 11–12.

2. “Killings at Jackson State University,” African American Registry, accessed May 5, 2016, http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/killings-jackson-state-university.

3. The Barna Group, “Americans Say Serving the Needy is Christianity’s Biggest Contribution to Society,” October 25, 2010, https://www.barna.org/barna-update/faith-spirituality/440-americans-describe-christianity-contributions#.VytYwoQrKUk.

4. Ibid.

Chapter 11  The Power of Forgiveness

1. Corrie ten Boom with Elizabeth and John Sherrill, The Hiding Place (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 2006), 221.

2. William Winter, speech, John Perkins Anniversary Celebration, Jackson, MS, June 2010.

3. King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

Chapter 13  The Church of the Future

1. Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006), 269–70.

2. Ibid., 270.

3. George Barna, Revolution (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005), 65.