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Auteur: Vincent Harding
Taal: Engels
Pagina's: 172
Publicatiedatum: 1 januari 2008
Hoogte: 203 mm cm
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In these eloquent essays, the noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the meaning of his life today. Many of these reflections are inspired by the ambiguous message surrounding the official celebration of King's birthday. Harding sees a tendency to freeze an image of King from the period of his early leadership of the Civil Rights movement, the period culminating with his famous "I Have a Dream Speech". Harding writes passionately of King's later years, when his message and witness became more radical and challenging to the status quo at every level. In those final years before his assassination King took up the struggle against racism in the urban ghettos of the North; he became an eloquent critic of the Vietnam war; he laid the foundations for the Poor People's Campaign. This widening of his message and his tactics entailed controversy even within his own movement. But they point to a consistent expansion of his critique of American injustice and his solidarity with the oppressed. It was this spirit that brought him to Memphis in 1968 to lend his support to striking sanitation workers. It was there that he paid the final price for his prophetic witness.
In het kort
In these eloquent essays, the noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the meaning of his life today. Many of these reflections are i...
Specificaties
Auteur
Vincent Harding
Uitgever
Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Taal
Engels
Aantal pagina's
172
Ondertitel
The Inconvenient Hero
Formaat
Paperback
Publicatiedatum
1 januari 2008
ISBN
9781570757365
Hoogte
203 mm cm
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