Background
King, Ralph Edwin was born on September 20, 1936 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. Son of Ralph Edwin Senior and Julia Wilma (Tucker) King.
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Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism
( This is the gripping story of the civil rights movement...)
This is the gripping story of the civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi, told by one of its foremost activists, John R. Salter Jr. In 1961 Salter, then a teacher at Tougaloo Southern Christian College, the private and almost entirely African American school just north of the state capital, became the adult advisor of the North Jackson NAACP Youth Council, a post that for lifelong activist Salter blossomed into impassioned involvement in the Jackson movement. The struggle for civil rights featured some of the bloodiest resistance by a panoply of repressive resources lawmen, hoodlums, politicians, and vigilantes but also introduced Salter to the movement s most compelling and important figures, including NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers. Jackson, Mississippi tells the riveting story of their campaigns to abolish Jim Crow, including a committed and courageous economic boycott of Jackson that was instrumental in the desegregation of the capital s business district. A fierce and passionate retelling of frontline stories from a cultural revolution, Jackson, Mississippi is a vivid snapshot of the Deep South in the 1960s and a testament to the brilliant, dangerous, and historic actions of the civil rights activists there.
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Ralph Edwin King
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Education
Bachelor, Millsaps College, 1958; Master of Divinity, Boston University, 1961; M of Theology, Boston University, 1963; postgraduate, Harvard Division School, 1966.
Career
Minister, Belt (Montana) Valley Methodist Church, 1961;
minister, St. Andrew Methodist Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1962;
chaplain, dean of students, Tougaloo (Mississippi) College, 1963-1967;
civil rights work and prison, Council of Federated Orgns. and other organizations, 1960-1969;
school integration coordinator, Delta Ministry of National Council of Churches, Jackson, Mississippi, 1967-1970;
nonviolence development researcher, Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, India, 1971;
director, Missippians for Creative Public Education, Jackson, 1972-1974;
associate professor sociology, School of Health Related Professions, U. Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, since 1974. Adjunct Professor sociology and religion Millsaps College Jackson, Mississippi, since 1974. Consultant civil rights history Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, since 1980.
Advisory board for religion Center for the Study of Southern Culture, Oxford, Mississippi, since 1983. Consultant on elections Mississippi American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Jackson, 1982-1986.
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Works
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Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism
( This is the gripping story of the civil rights movement...)
- Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism Paperback November 1, 2011
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Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism
Membership
State chair, national board American Civil Liberties Union, New York, 1974-1980. Privacy rights plaintiff, Federal Court Justices, American Civil Liberties Union/M v. Master of Science v. E. King, 1979-1998.
Candidate, lieutenant governor, congress Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Jackson, 1960's. National committee convention del.Dem. Party, Atlantic City, Chicago, Miami, Washington, 1964-1972.
Member Southern Sociological Society, Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Right to Life Committee, Alpha Eta.
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Married Jeannette Sylvester, July 3, 1960 (divorced 1983). Children: Lillian Marie, Margaret Jane.
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Political Party
Democrat
Awards
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Merrill fellow Harvard University Divinity School, 1966. Civil rights research grant Field Foundation, 1968-1970, Mississippi Humanites Council, 1983-1994.Merrill fellow Harvard University Divinity School, 1966. Civil rights research grant Field Foundation, 1968-1970, Mississippi Humanites Council, 1983-1994.