Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi

Author/Contributor(s):	Newman, Mark
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	01/01/2003
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this first book-length study of the Delta Ministry, Mark Newman tells how the organization conducted literacy, citizenship, and vocational training. He documents the Ministry's role in fostering the growth of Head Start and community-based health care and in widening the distribution of free surplus federal food and food stamps.