عنوان

Breaking white supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel

Standard Number

electronic

author

First Statement of Responsibility

Dorrien, Gary J.

Title Proper

Breaking white supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Haven

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 610 p

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references )pages 505-573(and index

Text of Note

Gary Dorrien

Text of Note

This magisterial follow-up to The New Abolition, a Grawemeyer Award winner, tells the crucial second chapter in the black social gospel's history. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked. In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today. This part of the story centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading America's greatest liberation movement

Entry Element

، African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 02th century

Entry Element

، Civil rights movements -- History -- 02th century.

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AU

AU King, Martin Luther, Jr 1929-1968