| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5 | The History Cooperative

David L. Chappell. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. 344. $34.95.
With this, his second book-length study, David L. Chappell continues his investigation of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Chappell addresses two questions: what was the motive force of the civil rights movement, and why did its segregationist opponents turn out to be so ineffective?	1
The answer to the first question, he argues, is the "prophetic religion" of the Bible. Through it the civil rights leaders found "the philosophical inspiration to rebel," and the rank and file found the "confidence, solidarity and discipline" to sustain their rebellion through many years of stress and danger (p. 2). At the same time, the segregationist opponents of the movement failed to gain religious support that had anything near the compelling and sustaining power. Chappell claims that he was not predisposed, either by personal outlook or by analytical instincts, to see religion as a motive force. But as he interviewed subjects for his research on the movement, he was struck by how frequently they spoke of the life-transforming conversions they experienced as they joined the movement and of God's miraculous help while engaged in its work.	. . .

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