| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. By Mark Newman. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xx, 352 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8203-2526-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2532-5.)

In the early 1960s, the 43 million member National Council of Churches created the Delta Ministry to aid the freedom struggle in Mississippi, making this mainstream Protestant organization a major force in the more democratic side of the freedom struggle that included the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Its own philosophy most resembled that of SNCC, with its emphasis on creating a grass-roots leadership, conducting citizenship schools and voter registration drives, teaching literacy, facilitating economic development, and securing social and economic justice for black workers. By 1967, as SNCC and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) pulled out of Mississippi, the Delta Ministry had become the leading civil rights organization in the state, with more field staff than any other organization in the South. It persisted into the 1970s and 1980s.

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