| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Mark Newman. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 352. cloth $54.95, paper $22.95.

Although there is no shortage of books about the civil rights movement, Mark Newman's study of the Delta Ministry sheds light on an important but neglected aspect of the struggle for racial equality in the United States. In September 1964, the National Council of Churches (NCC)—the principal institutional expression of American "mainline" Protestantism—established the Delta Ministry in Greenville, Mississippi. The founding of this organization represented an ambitious attempt not only to support the political and economic advancement of African Americans but also to encourage white Christians to become involved in the civil rights movement. While the resistance of white church people both in Mississippi and elsewhere eventually frustrated the achievement of the organization's goals, the Delta Ministry still made a significant impact on the lives of many black Mississippians and by 1967 employed the largest field staff of any civil rights group in the South.

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