7. Black Fires: Analyzing the Relationship Between Radical Theology and Arson in South Georgia

Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion - Lauren Horn Griffin

Aaron Treadwell
Middle Tennessee State University

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In the summer of 1962, there were six major arson cases in Southern Georgia. These acts of terrorism became national news, and would receive a response from J. Edgar Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jackie Robinson. This paper will examine the cause and effect of these acts of terrorism, with intention to express the theological reverberations of church fires. In the follow two months, six regional churches would face arson. By so doing, the epicenter for black resistance organization became ground zero arenas for racial war in southern Georgia.

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Treadwell, Aaron. 7. Black Fires: Analyzing the Relationship Between Radical Theology and Arson in South Georgia. Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. Oct 2024. ISBN 9781000000000. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=43937. Date accessed: 22 Sep 2023 doi: 10.1558/equinox.43937. Oct 2024

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