A Black Man Walked into a Church - Andrew Himes

From "The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family: "In 1963 when I was 13, my dad was pastor of the Southside Baptist Church in Millington, Tennessee. Many in our congregation were employed at or lived on the nearby Memphis Naval Air Station. Our little church was a plain brick building with white trim set amid acres of soybeans, cotton and Johnson grass 10 miles east of the broad brown waters of the Mississippi River. Outside our little church the "race question" was exploding across the South. Civil rights activists marched, rallied, and conducted sit-ins at lunch counters and department stores and bus stations. Klan members retaliated with a church bombing in Birmingham that killed four little girls. Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a shadowy assassin just 50 miles south of my front door."

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It's now the New Hope Baptist Church in the same location on Rahleigh-Millington Road.