Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama

Eagles, Professor Charles

ISBN 10: 081731069X / ISBN 13: 9780817310691

Published by University Alabama Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081731069X
• ISBN 13: 9780817310691
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

“As powerful as a lion and as soaring as an eagle, Daniels's vision remains in the pages and pictures of this volume.” ―Southern Cultures

Outside Agitator tells the powerful, largely forgotten story of Jonathan Daniels―a white Episcopal seminarian from New England who answered the call of the civil rights movement and paid for that commitment with his life. In 1965, Daniels left the safety of Harvard and Cambridge for Selma and Alabama’s Black Belt, where he worked alongside Black activists to challenge segregation, register voters, and confront the moral failures of church and state. His murder by a white segregationist shocked the nation and exposed the deadly cost of racial injustice―and of moral courage. 

More than a biography, this book asks urgent questions that still resonate: What does it mean to act on conscience in a society structured by inequality? What responsibilities do faith, citizenship, and privilege impose? Historian Charles W. Eagles places Daniels’s life within the turbulent final phase of the southern civil rights movement, revealing the everyday fears, ethical dilemmas, and racial tensions behind the iconic events of Selma and Lowndes County. 

Outside Agitator will appeal to readers interested in civil rights history, religious activism, Southern history, and the moral dimensions of political struggle. It is essential reading for students, scholars, clergy, and general readers seeking to understand how individual lives can illuminate―and challenge―the ongoing fight for justice and equality.

About the Author

Charles Eagles, Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, is the author of several books, including Democracy Delayed: Congressional Reapportionment and Urban-Rural Conflict in the 1920s, and editor of The Civil Rights Movement in America.