There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, JrFortress Press, 1 ene 1991 - 348 páginas Examines King's roots in Black popular culture and their role as the source of his power and vision |
Índice
| 15 | |
Walk Together Children Family Heritage | 91 |
How I Got Over Roots in the Black Church | 159 |
Up You Mighty Race The Black Messianic Hope | 229 |
Standing in the Shoes of John A Bearer of the Black Preaching Tradition | 273 |
CONCLUSION | 337 |
INDEX | 340 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr Lewis V. Baldwin Vista de fragmentos - 1991 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abernathy Atlanta Autobiography of Religious Avenue Baptist Church Baldwin Bearing the Cross black Americans black church black community black preachers Boston University civil rights movement Coretta Scott King Crozer Theological Seminary culture Daddy King Dexter Avenue Baptist Ebenezer Baptist Church Ebenezer church experience Farris father Garrow Georgia heritage Howard Thurman human Ibid interview with Dr Jackson James justice King Center Archives King Papers leader leadership letter from Martin Martin Luther King Minister as Preacher ministry Montgomery moral Morehouse College National Baptist Convention Negro nonviolence oppression pastor Philip Lenud preaching Press private interview prophetic racism Ralph Ralph Abernathy Religious Development Reverend role Roots of Resistance segregation sense sermons slave slavery social South southern black speech spiritual Stride toward Freedom struggle Testament of Hope tion tradition Understanding Martin Luther vision W. E. B. Du Bois Washington Watley William York Young Martin
Pasajes populares
Página 70 - I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Página 15 - Cast down your bucket where you are " — cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions.
Página 58 - Before I'll be a slave I'll be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord And be free.
Página 70 - I have a dream that one day even the State of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream...
Página 273 - The Preacher is the most unique personality developed by the Negro on American soil. A leader, a politician, an orator, a "boss," an intriguer, an idealist,— all these he is, and ever, too, the centre of a group of men, now twenty, now a thousand in number. The...
Página 1 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Página 235 - In a day when Sputniks and Explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, nobody can win a war. Today the choice is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.
Página 70 - I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
Referencias a este libro
The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America Richard Lischer No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Mysticism and Social Change: The Social Witness of Howard Thurman Alton Brooks Pollard Vista de fragmentos - 1992 |