{"product_id":"in-richards-world-the-battle-of-charleston-1966-paperback","title":"In Richard's World: The Battle of Charleston, 1966 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Barnwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1966, as a seminarian at the Virginia Theological Seminary, William H. Barnwell undertook a summer's missionary work at St. John's Episcopal Mission Center in his native city of Charleston, South Carolina. His supervisor was an African American priest, and Barnwell's duties ran the gamut from managing the recreation room to crisis intervention among the mission's clients and neighbors. \u003ci\u003eIn Richard's World\u003c\/i\u003e is based on letters and journal entries that Barnwell kept throughout 1966, a year of social upheaval and civil rights unrest in Charleston. It was during this time that Barnwell encountered the \"Battle of Charleston\" within himself. His activist education began during that summer as he moved culturally and politically between white and black communities on the Charleston peninsula and served in a church known more for its members' elite pedigrees than for social action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by the author that is part autobiography and part survey of the successes and failures of the civil rights movement in lowcountry South Carolina since \u003ci\u003eIn Richard's World\u003c\/i\u003e was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stirring firsthand account of lowcountry race relations during a turbulent period in civil rights history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stirring firsthand account of lowcountry race relations during a turbulent period in civil rights history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Barnwell\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee; served as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard; and graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary. He has been a pastor at churches in Conway and Columbia, South Carolina; New Orleans; and Boston; and he served at the Washington National Cathedral as the canon missioner. In 2008 he and his wife, Corinne, returned to New Orleans, where he manages a national Episcopal Church program, the Disciples of Christ in Community (DOCC), and serves in prison ministry and at various churches. His other books include \u003ci\u003eOur Story According to St. Mark\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLead Me On, Let Me Stand: A Clergyman's Story in White and Black.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42166573498503,"sku":"9781611172485","price":32.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/45379f90def09fa2593639c90f958d68.webp?v=1733321727","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/in-richards-world-the-battle-of-charleston-1966-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}