This is the true story of Dr.
Charles Johnson, an African American preacher who went to Mississippi in
1961 during the summer of the Freedom Rides. Fresh out of Bible School,
Johnson hesitantly followed his call to pastor in Mississippi, a hotbed
for race relations during the early 1960's. Unwittingly thrust into the
heart of a national tragedy, the murder of three Civil Rights activists,
he overcame fear and adversity to become a leader in the Civil Rights
movement. As a key African American witness to take the stand in the
trial famously dubbed the Mississippi Burning case by the FBI, Charles
Johnson played a key role for the Federal Justice Department, offering
clarity to the event that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This
story of love, conviction, adversity, and redemption climaxes with a
shocking encounter between Charles and one of the murderers. The reader
will be riveted to the details of a gracious life in pursuit of the call
of God from the pulpit to the streets, and ultimately into the
courtroom.
Chet Bush is a pastor/writer in Oxford, Mississippi. He received a
bachelor’s degree in Religion from Trevecca Nazarene University (1996)
in Nashville, TN.

Event date:
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 6:00pm
160 Courthouse Sq
38655-3914 Oxford
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