To Redeem the Soul of America looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr., to disclose the full workings of the organization that supported him. As Adam Fairclough reveals the dynamics within the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, Andrew Young, and others also played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago. Joining a charismatic leader with an inspired group of activists, the SCLC built a bridge from the black proletariat to the white liberal elite and then, finally, to the halls of Congress and the White House.
In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, "The good news is that we have come through such darkness before"--as, time and again, Lincoln's better angels have found a way to prevail.
Chronicles the life and work of the civil rights leader, discussing his philosophies and politics, his response to Black power, and his concern for the poor, both Black and white In this concise and readable biography, Adam Fairclough ...
The fresh material reveals untold facets of the story including a never-before-reported lapse by the Memphis Police Department to provide security for King.
The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.
In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States.
In addition to Lincoln and the founding fathers, the book shares Jaffa’s profound insights into Aristotle, Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, and more.
Dr. John Gottman, one of the world's foremost marriage researchers and cofounder of The Gottman Institute, identified contempt as the number one predictor of divorce. In his book Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, Gottman noted, ...
The inside story of the most-watched attempt to transform a troubled high school Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors tells the real-life story of Locke High School.
PREFACE 1John W. Cell, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the ... 11 H. Leon Prather, Resurgent Politics and Educational Progressivism in the New South: North Carolina, 1890-1913 ...
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