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Outside Agitator is a riveting history that uses the life and death of Jon Daniels to examine the religious faith that animated some of the white volunteers who went south in the early 1960s. We know how central the black church was to black participants in the movement, but we have less of a sense of how religious and theological impulses motivated many of the white volunteers. . . . Eagles has given us a rich and important book. --Wiliam H. Chafe, New York Times Book Review

Outside Agitator is a riveting history that uses the life and death of Jon Daniels to examine the religious faith that animated some of the white volunteers who went south in the early 1960s. We know how central the black church was to black participants in the movement, but we have less of a sense of how religious and theological impulses motivated many of the white volunteers. . . . Eagles has given us a rich and important book. --Wiliam H. Chafe, New York Times Book Review A very good book. . . . The story of Jonathan Daniels and Tom Coleman is complex, ambiguous, and multi-layered. Eagles is attuned to its nuances and explores them sensitively. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

Outside Agitator is a riveting history that uses the life and death of Jon Daniels to examine the religious faith that animated some of the white volunteers who went south in the early 1960s. We know how central the black church was to black participants in the movement, but we have less of a sense of how religious and theological impulses motivated many of the white volunteers. . . . Eagles has given us a rich and important book. Wiliam H. Chafe, New York Times Book Review

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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.

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